We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.