Category: An Inquiring Mind

Debate has raged about the cause of the moon illusion for thousands of years, and philosophers from Aristotle to Descartes to Kant have written about it. Now Ginny Smith weighs in.

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Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are some of the biggest health problems currently facing developed countries. Ginny Smith looks at the latest research.

There is growing concern about some of the pseudoscientific programming that has made its way onto Netflix of late. So Ginny Smith presents an open letter to the streaming platform.

Ginny Smith has a confession to make. She quite likes traffic jams. Not because she’s some kind of sadist who enjoys being late for things, but because they provide an interesting window into human behaviour.

Ginny Smith used to love shopping. Saturday afternoons exploring markets and so on. But with images of plastic-eating turtles and homeless orangutans always in her mind, she’s started to think about things differently.

There’s always going to be someone at Christmas dinner that hates sprouts. But it’s not them being fussy, it’s their genes’ fault. Ginny Smith explains.

A new study suggests that Netflix’s hit show, 13 Reasons Why, about teenage suicide may actually be having the opposite effect to the one it intended. Ginny Smith takes a look.

As daylight saving ends for 2018, Ginny Smith explains the effect it can have on our internal body clocks.

This week, the story broke that the UK government would begin adding folic acid to flour, to help prevent neural tube defects in new-borns. As someone who spends a reasonable amount of time on social media, Ginny Smith wasn’t surprised to see there was an instant backlash.

What can 80s gameshows tell us about hindsight bias? Both in quiz answers and hairstyle choices. Ginny Smith investigates.

Too often psychology experiments fail to take basic demographics of their participants into consideration.