Video games are big business. The value of the global market is pushing the US$200 billion mark (£158 billion): bigger than the music industry and Hollywood combined. But the gaming industry has also ...

Your inner monologue may be less constant than you think—more like a fridge light that turns on when you look. By Jennifer Byrne Published Mar 17, 2026 9:01 AM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...

"A penny for your thoughts!" Let's assume you mean that inquiry seriously-that you really want to know what is going on with me right then. What do you really want to know? First, you want to catch ...

This series of posts has been describing pristine inner experience—whatever is directly in your experience at some moment. My colleagues and I have given people beepers to carry into their everyday ...

One of the universal challenges in human knowledge is translating what is deeply felt and implicitly understood into something explicit, communicable, and measurable. Inner experience does not easily ...

We're often so wrapped up in the constant stream of thoughts running through our own minds that we don't stop to consider how others experience their inner worlds. Like many, I have a running ...