This is not a traditional blog post, but a talking blog post in the form of a TED talk that I gave last month in Maribor, Slovenia. So for the first time, I shall be talking rather than writing to you ...

Pixar's "Inside Out 2," released in 2024, manages to capture how it feels to be an awkward teenager. That accuracy partly comes from the filmmaker's collaboration with psychologists like Lisa Damour.

If you have ever thought, "I'm not a math person," you aren't alone. Math anxiety can start for kids as early as first grade, and cognitive scientist Sian Beilock says that adult fMRI scans show that ...