NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer and critic Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection out titled No Sense in Wishing.

Creativity isn’t cute, it’s messy, wild, and occasionally panic-inducing. But that inner chaos? It’s pure gold if you know ...

People first focused on living longer, then they got interested in staying healthy longer, and now it is time to enjoy life ...

In June, our art critic toured seven art museums from Detroit to Kansas City. National turmoil crept into the frame.

The course builds on my 2018 class, Art and Geometry, which I co-taught with local artists. The course explored Picasso’s cubism, which depicted reality as fractured from multiple perspectives; it ...

Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

In addition to producing art and literature, creativity is essential for problem-solving and adaptation. A team of investigators set out to better understand the brain circuits that produce creativity ...

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Fans argue about whose interpretation of their favorite show is correct, but the idea of the "beholder's share" explains that ...

Representation of abstract concepts in the brain at the neural level remains a mystery as we argue over the biological and theoretical feasibility of different forms of representations. We have ...

For decades, researchers weren’t sure mixed emotions existed. The brain is just toggling, they said. Well,not only do they ...