What is silence, exactly? In quiet moments, does the brain register silence the same way it hears, say, music? Or does it demarcate silence as the gaps between noises? Psychologists and philosophers ...

Do we have a bat signal for Paul Simon? In a new paper, a team of philosophers and psychologists at Johns Hopkins University claims to have finally settled an ancient debate: whether you can actually ...

Winter is the northeast’s quiet season, when songbirds go south, many animals hibernate, and people spend more time indoors. On the increasingly rare occasions when a blanket of snow covers the ...

Silence can be revitalising but it is elusive and it's hard to still the voice in our head. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A movie trailer advertised on Facebook a new movie coming out in November about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who was killed by Hitler toward the end of WWII. His ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Cyril remix of Disturbed's “The Sound Of Silence”—itself a ...

We were out in the yard the last couple of weekends, immersed in tasks that were mundane and yet glorious. Weeding vegetable beds. Filling the bird bath. Adding to the compost bin. Replacing the hose ...