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Sep 25, 2026
Two psychologists who spent their careers disagreeing about intuition sat down to settle it — and agreed on exactly when yours can be trusted. The answer is uncomfortable.
Sep 22, 2026
Five things almost everyone believes — a food scare, a famous experiment, a famous murder, a wine myth and a pandemic's name — that fall apart the moment anyone checks.
Sep 17, 2026
One of the largest measured disparities in criminal justice is also one of the least discussed. Part of it is unconscious bias, part of it is written into official sentencing guidance, and almost none of it happens in the courtroom.
Sep 15, 2026
She killed her three children and tried to end her own life while, her defence argued, in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis. Her jury still deadlocked — and the reason lies in American law, not the facts of her case.
Sep 10, 2026
Four things everybody knows that turn out to be wrong, and one genuine event so ridiculous that most people assume it is a joke. Telling them apart is harder than it sounds.
Sep 3, 2026
The best trials show acupuncture genuinely outperforms doing nothing, and even beat conventional care for chronic back pain. They also show that the meridian map it is sold with does none of the work.
Sep 1, 2026
The grading gap is real and replicated across a dozen countries. But when researchers swapped the names on identical exam papers, the effect vanished — which means the standard fix is aimed at the wrong thing.
Aug 27, 2026
It measures arousal rather than deception, and it does so better than chance — enough to be interesting, far too little to be proof. The reason it survives on both sides of the Atlantic has nothing to do with accuracy.
Aug 25, 2026
No Japanese Wagyu legally entered the US for most of the century, and the name still isn’t protected here. What you actually ate was usually American Wagyu — often excellent, just not Kobe.
Aug 20, 2026
The ice sheet has been growing for five years — because the ocean around it lost its ice cover, while the glaciers underneath run faster than ever into the sea.
Aug 18, 2026
Take it twice and your type probably changes. That isn't your fault — it's what happens when you cut a bell curve down the middle four times and call the pieces types.
Aug 13, 2026
Lemmings, the Great Wall, ostriches, Einstein, and knuckle-cracking — five things nearly everyone is sure of that fall apart the moment you look.
