Habit changes are more effective after moving. I imagine this goes for both favorable and unfavorable habits. We’re moving soon, so I’ll be paying extra attention. | learn more
Started in 1998, the experiment celebrated 50,000 generations in 2010 and is still on a roll. | learn more
There’s an apocryphal story of an experiment that highlights how group norms form and stick around – with monkeys! Despite it likely being made up, I still love it. I think of it whenever I hear “that’s the way we’ve […]
“What we showed is: up to four years before these people walk into the hospital, there are already signatures in their blood that show they have cancer,” says Kun Zhang, a bioengineer at the University of California, San Diego, and […]
“I ran an experiment with 1,500 people to find out how they would react to eight popular domain extensions (top-level domains): .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, .co, .blog, and .io.” | learn more
Quartz does a beautiful job overviewing our human struggle with happiness and a lot of the research that’s shaping our understanding of it. | learn more