When to Trust a Hunch
Two rival camps in decision science, one built on the failures of intuition and one on its triumphs, found they mostly agree. Here's what they agreed on.
The archive
Essays
Long reads on the mind, intuition, psychic claims and the engineering of insight, each with its evidence rated and its sources cited.
Feeling the Future, and What Followed
In 2011 a leading social psychology journal published evidence for precognition. The bigger story was what the failed replications revealed about science itself.
Does the Body Know First?
A famous card game suggested our bodies sense danger before our minds do. Thirty years on, the somatic marker hypothesis is still fiercely debated.
Anatomy of an Aha
Brain recordings show that sudden insight has its own neural signature, and that the mind prepares for it before the answer arrives.