fbi One of the jurors who convicted Whitey Bulger started up a strange pen pal friendship with him Thom Dunn

psychological experiments The Barbie Doll Illusion experiment gives you an out-of-body experience Mark Frauenfelder

crime You will be helped! Research using real-world situations fails to replicate the "bystander effect" Cory Doctorow

Business "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict Cory Doctorow

drugs The creepy chemist behind CIA's search for a mind control drug David Pescovitz

books Watch: "Horse destroys the universe" David Pescovitz

bots On the psychological value of "griefbots" Clive Thompson

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

podcasts Science is wrong about everything, but you can trust it more than anything David McRaney

Science Crowdfunding controlled experiments with long-neglected, promising psychedelics Cory Doctorow

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

Science How to: tickle a rat Cory Doctorow

politics People who feel out of control of their lives are more likely to believe in conspiracies Cory Doctorow

politics Understanding American authoritarianism Cory Doctorow

corruption CIA black-site torture survivors sue shrinks who made $85M overseeing CIA torture program Cory Doctorow

Science How we learn to be helpless—and unlearn it David McRaney

Science The scientist who studied whether dreamers could be telepathic David Pescovitz

yanss Avatars, rubber hands, virtual reality, and racism David McRaney

The surprising history of hippy crack Linda Rodriguez