Kristen French

Most of us overestimate how hooked we are

The tunes that top the charts have been getting more negative for half a century

The aesthetic benefits of low mental effort

A form of narcissism may underlie the psychology of sexually motivated murder

A “superhuman” alphabet for the hands

Remembering is timed to the rhythms of our lungs

The calls of our closest living evolutionary cousins still hit an ancient target in the human brain

It’s not what we thought

How the machines miss threats smuggled inside lines of verse

The fire amoeba challenges assumptions about what complex life needs to survive on Earth

Our neural command centers evolve through predictable major turning points from birth to death

Take some notes from the monk parakeet