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Marco Giancotti | Aether Mug | 21st August 2025 Compact list of the most infamous experiments debunked during psychology’s replication crisis in the 2010s. For now, these theories should be considered false: being bilingual has cognitive advantages; cleanliness makes people more morally lax; listening to Mozart temporarily makes you smarter; simply thinking about money makes you more selfish; people solve problems better under stress (1,300 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Brian Klaas | Garden Of Forking Paths | 6th October 2025 Human lives today are utterly without precedent. Jet-lag, first identified in 1931, was made possible by a mode of travel far enough and fast enough to disrupt our circadian rhythms. 9,497 of the 9,500 prior generations of humans never experienced Earth as a Pale Blue Dot. Past humans would have been bewildered at the notion that children teach their parents how to use technology, and not the reverse (3,300 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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