A New Map of Wonders

Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. They guide adaptive behaviors. But part of that involves hiding from u...

In which human dreams are swallowed, or expanded, without limit: With a VR platform we will create a Wikipedia of experiences, potentia...

After watching Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light , I read a little about the Atacama desert, and came across this picture of pen...

When breakthroughs happen, they don't come as confirmation of what we already know. They come as something unexpected, hard to fathom...

We sometimes hear (and know-next-to-nothings like me sometimes repeat) that the human brain is the most complex known object in the unive...

We never see the world as our retina sees it. In fact, it would be a pretty horrible sight: a highly distorted set of light and dark pixe...

A landscape opened up before me. I felt as if I were standing on the top of a mountain, gazing out over a plain, covered by long, meander...