Our imagination might not be as powerful as we think when it comes to holding visual images, according to a first-of-its-kind study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Subscribe to ...

It is a classic with an odd title, though St. Ignatius Loyola opened his Spiritual Exercises with an explanation of the appellation. For, just as taking a walk, traveling on foot, and running are ...

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” the White Queen famously declares in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Nearly all of the best children’s books are ...

The vogue is understandable. The world, after all, feels like it’s on fire. (Though that, too, is mostly a figment of our imagination.) Escapism offers comfort. That’s not a criticism — escapism isn’t ...

My college philosophy professor loved thought experiments. Just loved them. Loved them as much as the cinnamon rolls with sticky white frosting that he ate every Friday at the start of our 9 a.m.

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Neuron, found that ...

“The most important failure was one of imagination… It is therefore crucial to find a way of routinizing, even bureaucratizing, the exercise of imagination.” – The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 11 ...