Do you feel like the world (and your mind) is spinning? As if the ground beneath your feet isn’t safe or solid? We now have access to an unprecedented amount of knowledge, data, and information ...

Have you ever had a gut feeling you ignored, only to regret your decision later? Although it’s something we are very much familiar with in our day-to-day lives, for some reason we don’t trust ...

Through the ubiquitous media—and the technology and consumerism which drives it—our attention is captured, held, and force-fed with the beliefs, opinions, and “facts” of others. So skillful are the ...

Siddharth Ramakrishnan, a neuroscientist, professor of biology at the University of Puget Sound, and tarot reader since 2000, explores what goes on in our brains when we look at images on tarot cards ...

You've probably been told to "trust your gut" at some point. Maybe it was a split-second decision about what ice cream flavor or apartment to choose, or a sneaking suspicion that saved you from an ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In my last post, I suggested that required ...

As a leader of a small or medium enterprise (SME), you often face the challenging decision of whether to trust your gut instincts or rely solely on scientific data. This conundrum isn’t new, yet it ...

In Finland, farmers who have transitioned to regenerative agriculture perceive intuition as something that leads to better decision-making, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.

When was the last time you just knew something—without being able to explain why? Have you ever had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right, only to discover later that your instincts were spot-on?