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“Ancient Greeks depicted Cronus as a Titan, son of Uranus and Rhea, who devoured his own children because he had been foretold that one of them would dethrone him. One of his heirs would repeat the act of rebellion that had led him to castrate his father and take his place. Since his children were divine beings, Cronus could not kill them; so, to neutralize them, he devoured them. A terrible metaphor for our deepest anxieties: that time consumes and destroys not only ourselve

We like to think about ourselves as rational beings who process all information before making a judgement, but this is often not the case. Every day, we make thousands of decisions - about what to buy, how to spend our time, who to vote - often in a fraction of a second. To handle the constant stream of information that comes our way, our brains rely on shortcuts known as heuristics. These mental simplifications save energy and time, and have helped us survive so far, but in

Written by: Nicola di Crescenzo, Anna Murru, Sebastiano Murru, Alessandro Orrù Introduction “The investors who inhabit the real world and those who populate academic models are distant cousins.” (Barber and Odean (2001)) In traditional financial models, market participants are described as rational decision-makers who tend to minimize transaction costs and hold diversified portfolios. However, this depiction fails to accurately describe real-world investor behavior. In real

In 1972 the novelist Martin Caidin published “Cyborg”, a story depicting an astronaut who, after losing his arm, replaced it with a technological prosthetic that made him a notorious spy; fast forward 53 years and who knows if Martin ever knew that now cyborgs are everywhere: in the streets, in the stallers and in the mirrors. The smartphone, therefore, has become a behaviouralosthetic attached at the end of their arm, not (yet) able to execute mechanical activities, but maki

For students, running can be more than a workout. It can be a way to manage the stress of deadlines, balance long study sessions, and give your brain the breathing space it needs. Many runners describe entering a kind of flow state — where thoughts quiet down and movement feels almost effortless. That’s the beauty of it: running isn’t just about physical endurance; it’s a mental reset button.

Historically, research on the brain has focused primarily on male brains, especially in preclinical animal studies. In neuroscience...