Psychology & Behaviour
Cognition, decision-making, motivation and human behaviour.
5 Evidence-Based Habits That Build Lasting Happiness — Backed by Decades of Research
Science reveals that lasting happiness is less about fleeting emotions and more about structured daily practices. Here are five habits with strong empirical support for cultivating enduring well-being.
Random Sounds During Sleep Disrupt Memory — Even When They Don’t Wake You Up
A University of Freiburg study reveals that random acoustic clicks during sleep—without arousal or full awakenings—block slow-wave propagation across the cortex, impairing both factual and motor memory consolidation. The damage happens beneath the surface: total sleep time appears normal, yet the brain’s internal architecture unravels.
When a Disabled Child's Aggression Hurts Their Siblings: What Parents Can Do
When a child with a disability or mental illness exhibits aggressive behavior, their siblings often bear the brunt of the impact. Discover how parents can identify sibling aggression, maintain a safe household, and provide tailored support for both children.
The Paradox of Connection: Why Constant Digital Contact Doesn't Replace Sitting Together
Understanding the difference between constant digital connection and genuine presence in human relationships, drawing on psychological research about loneliness, empathy, and the importance of authentic togetherness.
The Sea of Possibility Beneath Everything You Touch, See, and Trust
An exploration of how human perception, informed by quantum cognition and evolutionary biology, constructs a stable world of actuality from an underlying reality of potentiality — and why this matters for creativity, meaning, and consciousness.
One Hit, Permanent Scar: What Behavioral Health Technology Can Learn From Cocaine's Genome Rewrite
New research reveals that a single exposure to cocaine triggers profound, long-lasting structural changes in the 3D genome of dopamine neurons — a finding that reframes how behavioral health technology should think about addiction risk, early intervention, and the myth of harmless use.
Should Anthropic Trust Elon Musk to Host Its Models?
Elon Musk reversed his view on Anthropic less than a year after declaring its success impossible, then backed it with $40 billion of compute—here’s why that pivot makes sense for everyone involved.
Apple’s Quiet Takeover of the Swift Package Index Could Reshape Open-Source Trust
Apple's acquisition of the Swift Package Index signals more than corporate consolidation—it’s a potential reset for how open-source Swift packages are discovered, verified, and trusted.
How AI Weights Are the New Vanity Search — And Why It Feels Like Your Name Lives in Floating-Point Memory
A deep look at "In the Weights", the quirky tool Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn built to measure your digital immortality inside LLMs — where Google search no longer rules.
Legacy DRAM Boom: DDR2 and DDR3 Prices Surge Amid AI-Driven Memory Shortage
The global memory crisis has intensified as buyers turn to legacy DRAM products like DDR2 and DDR3 to secure supply, causing unprecedented price hikes. According to TrendForce, DDR2 prices are projected to rise 55-60% in Q2 2026, with DDR3 also experiencing significant increases as demand outstrips supply.
FuriosaAI Takes Lisbon — And the Power Math Actually Makes Sense
FuriosaAI's RNGD accelerators are now live at Equinix's Lisbon datacenter. For a South Korean chip startup that's been quietly building power-efficient inference silicon since 2017, the European debut is less about offloading inventory and more about betting on sovereign AI compute — with a chip that sips 180W while delivering serious FP8 throughput.
Six Decades of Song Lyrics Reveal a Steady Turn Toward Moral Darkness
A Queen Mary University of London study analyzing 380,000+ popular songs from 1960 to 2023 finds that lyrics have shifted dramatically away from moral virtues like care and decency toward themes of harm, cheating, subversion, and degradation — with AI-driven analysis revealing a parallel surge in anger and disgust across six decades of music.