Kristen French
How the Heat is Messing with Your Sleep
Restless nights may be the new normal as the globe cooks
How Conversations Can Shape Reality
A conversation about the science of conversation with neuroscientist and author Shane O’Mara
Are You in Danger of Becoming a Robot?
How interacting with social chatbots could reduce your “personhood”
How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams
Certain concepts such as metaphor may derive from early dream interpretation
What a Blissful Psychedelic Trip Looks Like Inside the Brain
Personality and context shape the psilocybin experience in ways that show up on brain scans
How Paying Attention to Pain Could Help You Heal Faster
Close attention might be part of your immune system
What Bird Song Can Tell Us About the Nature of Dreams
Clues to the evolution of sleep and dreaming may be hiding in avian reveries
Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
A conversation with David Samson, evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless Ape, about how to sleep
The Quest to Understand the Forgotten Psychedelic
One of the first scans of mescaline in the brain suggests it travels a different path
Extraordinary Experiences Are More Common Than You Think
How you make sense of the experience shapes its impact your well-being
“We Wanted to Create An Experience of Microscopic Awe”: A Radical New View of Sacred Plants
Fluorescent visions of the guts of living sacred plants from all over the Americas
When Dreaming Gets Your Heart Moving
Deep dreaming may be more in tune with the body than we thought
