A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

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Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

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The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

But this case troubles me precisely because it validates the conservative complaints about higher education that I usually ...