Recently I was browsing the Amazon website and I saw that a new Stephen King book was available in Kindle Unlimited. It was called Infested and the Amazon summary made it sound intriguing. More importantly, though, this was a book by Stephen freaking King, one of the writing greats. In…

Belief in pseudoscience is a significant problem today, particularly in the U.S., where a 2022 study reports that 10% of people believe the Earth is flat (there is even a Flat Earthers movement). Wired magazine is combating pseudoscience with a series of videos by the authoritative and smart (not to…

The brain’s executive control functions, or executive functions, are a set of higher-level cognitive skills that enable people to control and coordinate their behaviors and other cognitive abilities. These functions are located in the frontal cortex of the brain, directly behind the forehead.