Derek Beres

Derek Beres

Derek Beres is a freelance writer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and co-author of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat.

You can become a tree or even the soil supporting it.
The neurochemistry of working with your hands.
Turns out the more we desire a food, the more we have to consume to feel satiated.
If you're not failing, you're not learning.
To go beyond meaning you might need a helpful phrase.
A new study reveals that it increases eye pressure, negating the effects of THC.
Good quotes are powerful catalysts for positive actions.
A new study out of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville traces a disturbing correlation.
Celebrating five years since Grain Brain was published, David Perlmutter doubles down on his warnings.
From psychology to neuroscience, what we believe is not nearly as relevant as why we do.
In Well Grounded, behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert says it's all about contingency planning.
It isn't mind over matter as much as mind properly working with matter.
It's not what you have, it's what you do with it.
More and more research points to a serious mistake we made in how biomechanics works.
We have to practice doing nothing more often.
Thousands of churches are left behind every year in America.
The great mythologist reminds us that our bliss is part of our suffering.
Ketamine is showing promise in alleviating suicidal thoughts.