Around the World and Into the Psyche
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The New York Film Festival, 42 years in the running, continues to command respect as a showcase for eminent filmmakers and up-and-coming masters.
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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Recent research is providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal explanations.
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The lowdown on the world's most treacherous places--and what to do if you have to visit one.
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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.
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Measuring the well-being of a nation isn&#39;t as simple as figuring out a country&#39;s gross domestic product. But a team of economists and psychologists has developed a new method
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A long, strange trip gets longer and stranger when the United Nations decides to police the manufacture of hallucinogens. Compiled by Tony Long.
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It offers more than you might have thought.
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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Newbie to the virtual world tries to find her way around the vast continent.
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The darkness of the soul encounters the science of pharmaceuticals.
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Millenia Gallery goes global today with the opening of "The Internationals -- Four Continents, Four Countries, Four Artists," an exhibition exploring the concepts of unity and freedom.
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A new generation of psychologists is exploring the way people change what they think and believe in order to achieve peace of mind. Happy birthday, 'cognitive dissonance.'
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Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way).
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Using virtual-reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences in healthy people.
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Norman Doidgeâs fascinating synopsis of the current revolution in neuroscience straddles the gap between science and self-help.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."