[Categories] > Mind & Body

Dream Groups (June 6, 2004)
Intramural introspection

Bionic Eyes (June 8, 2004)
Seeing is believing

Eye Language (June 10, 2004)
Look what you're saying

Iris Scans (June 11, 2004)
A new angle on photo identification

Lucid Dreams (June 12, 2004)
Waking up to the reality of dreaming

Honey as Medicine (June 17, 2004)
Sweet relief

Silent Retreats (July 4, 2004)
A different way of listening

Synesthesia (July 8, 2004)
Making sense of shared senses

Robots that Smell (July 9, 2004)
Artificial noses and beyond

Peanut Milk (July 16, 2004)
The magic peanut elixir

The Story of Phineas Gage (August 5, 2004)
Brain damage and personality

The Charles Atlas Dynamic-Tension Fitness Course (August 8, 2004)
Isometric blast from the past

T'ai Chi Ch'uan (August 10, 2004)
The meditative martial art

Fasting (August 14, 2004)
There's more to not eating than you think

Body-Based Units of Measurement (August 23, 2004)
Size matters in more ways than one

Quantifying Despair and Depression (August 28, 2004)
Keep swimming

Push Hands (September 1, 2004)
The paradoxical secret weapon of t'ai chi

Sedona's Energy Vortexes (September 20, 2004)
The world's most popular invisible tourist attraction

Modern Mummies (September 30, 2004)
Resurrecting the art of arrested decay

The Egely Wheel (October 8, 2004)
Vital energy measurement for the masses

Binaural Beats (October 13, 2004)
The magical music of the brain

Cochlear Implants (October 14, 2004)
The sound and the fury

White Noise (October 16, 2004)
Color-coding sound

The Writings of Carlos Castaneda (October 21, 2004)
Sorcery, mythology, or both?

Spontaneous Human Combustion (October 22, 2004)
Answering the burning questions

Labyrinth Walks (November 18, 2004)
The twisty path to clarity

Oxygen Bars (December 12, 2004)
I'll have an O…Make it a double.

Malaria (December 21, 2004)
Bad air, good vegetables

Wine Color Taste Tests (December 28, 2004)
Questioning common sense(s)

The Skin Project (January 14, 2005)
Short story as body art

Printing Skin Tissue (January 15, 2005)
Human organs from 3-D printers

Rebreathers (February 17, 2005)
Taking scuba to new depths

Leeches Reconsidered (February 19, 2005)
Modern medicine sucks it up

Edible Gold (March 3, 2005)
The gourmet and the alchemist

Throat Singers (March 14, 2005)
All-natural one-man bands

Freediving (March 22, 2005)
Taking the oxygen-free plunge

Kitty Genovese Syndrome (March 29, 2005)
The problem of the guilty bystander

Orgone (March 31, 2005)
The strange theories of Wilhelm Reich

Fire Breathing (April 7, 2005)
Don't try this at home

Kefir (April 12, 2005)
The fermented milk wonder drink

Castor Oil (April 15, 2005)
The all-purpose health aid and poison

Sleep Debt (April 25, 2005)
Wake now, pay later

The Story of Toilet Paper (May 7, 2005)
What goes around, comes around

Parkour (May 16, 2005)
Turning a city into an obstacle course

InterPlay (May 17, 2005)
Getting grown-ups back into their bodies

The Milgram Obedience Experiments (May 19, 2005)
Just following orders

Bee Venom Therapy (May 23, 2005)
A stinging endorsement

Breathing Liquid (May 24, 2005)
The frontiers of human respiration

DNA Fingerprinting (June 14, 2006)
Not just for crime fighting

Anopsology (September 27, 2006)
The raw facts about the raw-food movement

Power Napping (November 1, 2006)
Siestas revisited

Proxemics (February 15, 2007)
The study of personal space

Entomophagy (February 21, 2007)
Insects as food

The Influence of Color on Taste Perception (March 19, 2007)
Palette vs. palate

The Grande Chartreuse (March 23, 2007)
Keeping the faith quietly

Polyphasic Sleep (March 30, 2007)
Hacking your internal clock

Coffee Decaffeination Processes (June 15, 2007)
Less buzz for your buck