Although science has recently shown us how malleable our minds are, popular culture hasn’t fully caught up. In particular, we think of thinking skills as set in stone. According to this mode of thought, we are either born with well working, highly functional brains, or else we are born with dull ones that don’t work [...]

Is speeding up or slowing down time even possible? Obviously the answer to that one is yes. Everyone who read science fiction knows that and anyone who has every studied physics or serious mathematics knows that. However that’s not what I meant. I meant when time is passing so slowly, at some boring event or circumstances, [...]