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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.
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Just imagining movement fires the same neurons as if we were actually moving. A new study shows we can wake our sleeping mind to practice motor skills in our dreams.
Christopher Hitchens argued that religion makes humans "extremely self-centered."
In 'All the Real Indians Died Off,' two scholars take longstanding myths about Native Americans to task.
Dreams might be a whole lot sexier than we thought – but not because of their narrative content. Neurologist Patrick McNamara's theory links the biological changes in our brains during sleep to human's inherent desire to procreate.
If Will Allen's documentary, Holy Hell, teaches us one thing, it's that there's no easy answer.
Our inherent response mechanisms were programmed long ago; implicit biases are reactionary, volatile, largely under the radar of conscious awareness. They do not imply blanket racism.
As nine states consider legalization or medical use in November, anti-marijuana advocates are relying on old and false claims.
According to Pulitzer prize-nominated writer Nicholas Carr the internet is a utopia in which we never have to confront anything. When technology and humanity intersect, how does it affect our brains, our intellect, and our ability to explore?
In a world that's always connected, we give away an essential part of our selves with constant distractions.
A new study shows that cerebral blood flow within the left and right hippocampus significantly decreases after just 10 days of without exercise.
A recent report covered in Runner's World says the sweet spot might just be forty miles a week.
More Americans now use opioids than tobacco, while pro-painkiller lobbies outspend opposition 200 to 1.
For nearly 50 years, a charred lump of Dead Sea Scrolls has been sitting in a lab, too brittle to unroll. Now it's been virtually unwrapped using 3D technology, and the contents are intriguingly – and significantly – petty.
Our reliance on GPS is not only hurting our learning and memory systems, it's changing our ethics.
I trail run early in the morning, in part, to avoid people. Los Angeles might be vast, but spacious it is not. By 6:30 am I’m running up one side […]
A new study in nature reports that LSD minimizes fear recognition and enhances emotional empathy and sociality. Is it time to widely utilize 'trip treatment'?
A recent study in Drug and Alcohol Dependence shows the efficacy of mindfulness meditation in overcoming addiction through emotional regulation.
In A Field Guide to Lies, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin explains how to wade through an endless sea of data and statistics to hone our critical thinking skills.
A new study shows how interval exercise resulted in two hundred fewer calories consumed in just thirty-five minutes.
One Alabama library is demanding jail time for late books. How is this happening in a nation that's reading less and less?