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CONSIDER THE FLIGHTLESS fluffs of brown otherwise known as herring gull chicks. Since they're entirely dependent on their mothers for food, they're born with a powerful instinct. Whenever they see [...]

On a clear December afternoon, Roger Thomas was completing a four-month renovation of the high-limit slot-machine room at the Wynn Las Vegas resort. Three assistants trailed him as he darted [...]

The vampire bat emerges from its cave at the darkest hour of night, after the moon has set. It flies low across the landscape, hunting by smell and sonar. Once [...]

Byline: by JONAH LEHRER Photograph by DWIGHT ESCHLIMAN PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY CURTIS MANN ILLUSTRATION BY TEAGAN WHITE The Forgetting Pill HOW A NEW DRUG CAN TARGET YOUR WORST MEMORIESAND ERASE [...]

Byline: by Jonah Lehrer PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BARTHOLOMEW COOKE Cultivating Genius Our cities can crank out modern-day Shakespearesif we get our priorities straight. Most economic growth has a very simple [...]

In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided to write a book in which he shared his creative secrets. At the time, B.B.D.O. was [...]

Byline: by Jonah Lehrer Photographs by Mauricio Alejo TRIALS AND ERRORS Dead-end experiments, useless drugs, unnecessary surgery. WHY SCIENCE IS FAILING US. On November 30, 2006, executives at Pfizerthe largest [...]

Byline: JONAH LEHRER PHOTOGRAPH BY Jamie Kripke Navigating Blind Claudia Folska's mapping research will help improve cities for all. When she was 5, a degenerative retinal disease left Claudia Folska [...]

Byline: JONAH LEHRER Creative Awakening It was the perfect afternoon for a round of golf. Jon Sarkin, a chiropractor (and brother of V.F. features editor Jane Sarkin), was about to [...]

Byline: BY JONAH LEHRER PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN MIDGLEY 83190 EASY 161208 MONEY 0538 In some scratch lottery games, it's not that hard to beat the odds. Is this a new [...]

ALONE TOGETHER Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other By Sherry Turkle 360 pp. Basic Books. $28.95. In 1995, Sherry Turkle, a professor of the ''social [...]

Geoffrey West doesn't eat lunch. His doctor says he has a mild allergy to food; meals make him sleepy and nauseated. When West is working -- when he's staring at [...]

On September 18, 2007, a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news. It had to do with [...]

In the last decade or so, the American economy has been undone by a series of bubbles. First there was the dot-com boom, in which start-ups without business models were [...]

Byline: by JONAH LEHRER ILLUSTRATIONS BY ICONWERK UNDER PRESSURE STRESS DOESN'T KILL US BUT IT MAKES EVERYTHING THAT DOES KILL US MUCH WORSE. INSIDE THE SEARCH FOR A CURE. Baboons [...]

THE SHALLOWS What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains By Nicholas Carr 276 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $26.95 Socrates started what may have been the first technology [...]

Byline: by JONAH LEHRER PHOTOGRAPH BY Bryce Duffy Animating A Blockbuster Inside Pixar's creative magic. Screenwriter William Goldman once famously declared that the most important fact of life in Hollywood [...]

Byline: BY JONAH LEHRER ILLUSTRATION BY Markus Hofko LOST IN THE DETAILS How breaking everything down to particles blinds scientists to the big picture. A typical experiment in functional magnetic [...]

The Victorians had many names for depression, and Charles Darwin used them all. There were his ''fits'' brought on by ''excitements,'' ''flurries'' leading to an ''uncomfortable palpitation of the heart'' [...]

In the late nineteen-sixties, Carolyn Weisz, a four-year-old with long brown hair, was invited into a 'game room' at the Bing Nursery School, on the campus of Stanford University. The [...]

Three and a half seconds: That's approximately how long a quarterback has to decide where to throw the ball. How does he survey the options while a swarm of humongous, [...]

The summer of 1949 was long and dry in Montana. On the afternoon of August 5th--the hottest day ever recorded in the state--a lightning fire was spotted in a remote [...]

IN January 2001, the British Parliament passed a bill that authorized government funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Seven months later, in his first televised address to the nation, […]

The article focuses on utilizing power of mind to over muscle to avoid quitting an activity. Topics discussed include runner Karl Meltzer's running on Appalachian Trail in Fauquier County, Virginia, oxygen consumed at various speeds measured by physiologist and Nobel laureate Archibald Hill and his colleagues by running around a grass track, and Archibald Hill's views on chemical mechanism in muscle.