Are you bad at recognising faces? It may have something to do with your personality

What enables face-recognition? Cognition, yes. But a new study suggests that it could also be linked to empathy, anxiety or introversion.

Karen Lander, The Conversation

· Dec 26, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Even if companies use feminism as a marketing tool, it isn’t ‘capitalism’s handmaiden’

Tying up with big corporations, or elite allies, helps feminists shape gender-neutral business policies as well as raise money to help women across the globe.

Lauren McCarthy and Kate Grosser, The Conversation

· Sep 09, 2019 · 11:30 pm

My sudden synaesthesia: How I went blind and started hearing colours

One woman lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled – hearing and touch changed the way she saw.

Vanessa Potter, Mosaic

· Oct 15, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Do blind people hear better than others? Watch this feisty man bust some common myths

Tommy Edison tackles all kinds of strange questions with colourful examples.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 12, 2016 · 09:00 pm

Seeing the unseen: the stories that comics help us recognise

Through the use of panels, comics offer windows into alternate worlds that the reader must digest individually, and as a whole.

Golnar Nabizadeh, The Conversation

· Feb 23, 2015 · 12:30 pm

Three simple steps to understand art: look, see, think

Here’s an important tip – you don’t have to look at (or like) everything in an art gallery.

Kit Messham-Muir, The Conversation

· Nov 02, 2014 · 12:30 pm

Three questions not to ask about art – and four to ask instead

Could a child have painted Picasso’s Seated Woman? That’s the wrong kind of question to ask of art.

Kit Messham-Muir, The Conversation

· Nov 01, 2014 · 02:30 am