Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.

Researchers use neuroimaging techniques to map creativity, not simply to specific regions, but to a "creativity circuit" in ...

But most Black people haven’t had the opportunity to get a break from either political worries or racism in the United States. Data from Pew Research Center shows that only 49% of Black Americans have ...

Turns out some of the traits we’re told to tone down—daydreaming, emotional intensity, pattern obsession—often correlate with ...

Podcast: Do young children prefer to rely on their memory, or do they take the easier route and use external aids like lists and reminders? Under the Cortex explores.

One of the most passionate and saddest, yet hardly known great historical love affairs was that between an English classical ...

Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?

about the gulf in intellectual life between science and the humanities and has read all the novels and poetry that reference colour, and all the associations with emotions, such as love and anger and ...

Could the day of the week you dream your dreams have a bearing on their messages and meanings? A dream is a sequence of ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Corey Van Landingham, a graduate of Purdue's creative writing MFA program has published three poetry collections. Her third, "Reader, I," explores the nuances of romantic relationships in conversation ...