Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.