"Déjà vu" is the eerie sensation that something -- a place, a person, an event -- is oddly familiar to us, even when that cannot possibly be the case. It manifests as our seemingly recognizing a place ...

Just as a night club magician uses sleight of hand to fool his audience, our brains play mischievous tricks on us—no top hat or wand required. The magic word is not “abracadabra,” or “alakazam,” ...

After the French Revolution, when the Bourbon regime was restored to power, the French statesman Charles Talleyrand remarked, “They learned nothing and they forgot nothing.” That may also be true of ...