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Can PTSD Be Good for You?

There’s no way to be sure what will traumatize someone, and not everyone exposed to “trauma” develops PTSD.

January 6, 2018

Why Garbage Science Gets Published

Predatory journals keep the pseudoscience flowing.

A Modest Proposal for Thanksgiving

Or, For Preventing the Annual Repast from Being a Burden on the Earth, and for Making It Beneficial to the Publick.*

November 22, 2017

Why We Still Need Monsters

This month’s Ingenious, Stephen T. Asma, on what haunts us.

October 12, 2017

The Science Behind “Blade Runner”’s Voight-Kampff Test

What a modern version of the sci-fi assessment would look like.

October 6, 2017

Why Monster Stories Captivate Us

Our brains are compelled by category violations.

September 25, 2017