The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Sunny Bains
See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones.
by Kevin Dutton
Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers—a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse and the manipulation of others—are also shared by politicians and world leaders.
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Changing the chance of success doesn’t alter the men’s behaviour much, but women are extremely responsive to the likelihood of success.
A Tetw reading list
A huge collection of outstanding articles about the mind, covering everything from evolution, our senses and memory to life-hacking, multitasking and the psychology of exceptional people.
by Joshua Foer
Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in. The effect on retention of learning in this manner is staggering…
by David Wong
What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? All of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world suddenly makes perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere.
by Ethan Watters
The very way Americans think about themselves and others—and even the way they perceive reality—makes them distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention from the vast majority of our ancestors.
by Maria Konnikova
We like to know where things come from. We like stories. We like nice tales. We need our myths, our origins, our creations.
by Atul Gawande
The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
