Posts

Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize c...

Walk 10,000 steps a day, cut back alcohol, get better sleep at night, stay socia...

Please help us shape SharpBrains books, activities and ...

Dear SharpBrains reader and friend, please take a few minutes to provide your fe...

Lifestyle Matters: Let’s optimize cognition, health and...

Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring fascinating rese...

Some fun brain teasers to warm up 2024 … Happy New Year...

The post Some fun brain teasers to warm up 2024 … Happy New Year, ¡Feliz Año Nue...

Trend: Despite concerns, large US employers deploy apps...

Employers Are Offering a New Worker Benefit: Wellness Chatbots (The Wall Street ...

Six favorite books of 2023 to help harness the stress r...

It’s hard to address important issues in our lives or in society if we are stres...

Dancing and time

For Rachel Bespaloff, philosophy was a sensual activity shaped by the rhythm of ...

We’ll meet again

The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife. In four heartfelt le...

Indomitable Sufis

Once a centre of Afghan culture, Sufism seems to have disappeared in the maelstr...

Amazon woman

A bicycle seat, a shell and an ice cream, among other things, take the place of ...

Great art explained: Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne

How Bernini’s dynamic sculptures captured the passionate, theatrical mood of the...

The Asian world order

Before modern Europe existed there was a grand, interconnected political world, ...

The missing conversation

To the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage with one ...

The science of snowflakes

Each snowflake’s unique symmetry is a beautiful illustration of the natural laws...

The last eclipse in history

Solar eclipses are a happy astronomical accident. They were once even more spect...

Capturing the cosmos

When self-replicating craft bring life to the far Universe, a religious cult, no...

The geometry of other people

Some friends are ‘close’. Others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of ...

Letters live: generative AI

‘Our endeavours animate our lives, giving them depth and meaning’: what we lose ...

Breaking silence

Meet Walker Estes, a Deaf prison chaplain whose advocacy was shaped by his daugh...

Reconstructed hemisphere

In the 19th century, civil wars tore apart the US, Mexico and Argentina. Then ca...