How your beliefs shape what you can achieve

The best beliefs are both practical and provisional. They offer just enough certainty to act, yet enough flexibility to adapt ...
The Nation on MSN

Ben Lerner’s Novel of Fathers and Sons

His most experimental and unsettling book, Transcription is about a set of writers who are tormented by the question of ...
Silicon Canals

Nobody tells you that expecting instant replies is a relatively new social norm — and that an entire generation learned to communicate in ways that never required it

The anxiety you feel when someone doesn't text back within minutes is younger than YouTube — and an entire generation built ...
YouTube on MSN

How metabolic disease feeds emotional eating

Metabolic disease shape mood through the gut. Let's unpack how a microbiome-made molecule, ImP, alters stress coping & fuels ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Global seismic map links deep mantle deformation to subducted slabs

A team of seismologists has assembled the most extensive map yet of deformation deep inside Earth, revealing that the warping of rock just above the core-mantle boundary closely tracks the paths of ...

Integrative experiment design reveals hidden patterns in decades-old social science research

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...