Katherine Reynolds Lewis

When it comes to investing, we have met the enemy, and it's us. Excited by profit and terrified of loss, we let our emotions and minds trick us into making terrible investing decisions. "As humans, we're wired to act opposite to our interests," says…

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of dispatches from the Knight Science Journalism Program’s 2020-21 Project Fellows. Our brains are association machines. They rely on our past experiences to predict the future. They take cognitive shortcuts to…

Technology has reshaped the way we process our feelings. This expert advice can help us navigate the digital emotional landscape more smoothly. When you find yourself at loose ends, do you reflexively reach for your phone? It’s a common habit, and…

In his prime, my grandfather lived an active life, walking and swimming for hours every day. As he aged and suffered the loss of his wife, his experience of the physical world gradually narrowed. In his 90s, with his mobility increasingly limited,…

Skulls from the Morton collection at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. Photography by Jonah Rosenberg and Lyndon French A motley crew of scientists argue that our ever-shrinking skulls are wreaking havoc on our well-being Sep 19, 2019·16 min…

Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Imagine, for a moment, that you are lying inside an MRI scanner. A giant plastic cylinder surrounds your head and shoulders, and the…

College graduation is just around the corner, and many companies are gearing up to hire a fresh crop of future leaders in the coming months. But when executives take a close look at the youngest employees in the workforce, many are taken aback by the…

A recent essay by Jennifer Lawrence on Hollywood’s gender pay gap has revived the discussion about women negotiating salary and navigating the business world with confidence. Lawrence wrote in Lena Dunham’s Lenny newsletter of her regret at failing…

When my son was born, I didn’t think twice about choosing a white-sounding name for him. After all, I was named Katherine Mary Reynolds despite being half-Asian, so it almost seemed like a family tradition to have a secret Chinese name that wasn’t on…

June Arbelo, a second-grade teacher at Central School, comforts a student who wants to go home during the first day of school. Tristan Spinski/GRAIN Leigh Robinson was out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013 when a call came…

An uproar over a British Nobel laureate’s public comments about women in science forced his resignation Wednesday. But the episode merely demonstrates the deep-seated sexism still pervasive throughout technology, business, and other industries, which…

It’s spring. By now, you’ve either broken your New Year’s resolutions or successfully integrated them into your routines. If you’re in the former group, you’re in luck. This is actually a terrific time to create new habits or to shed old ones. That’s…

Many employers who discriminate don't do so intentionally, yet few are aware of concrete steps they can take to override their subconscious biases. Decades' worth of social-psychology research has demonstrated that humans classify each other by race…

A burgeoning civil rights movement is poised to change the workplace, and it revolves around differences in brain function. Advocates for neurodiversity say that it’s just as critical to business success as gender or racial diversity in the labor…

These days, job hunters are looking for any advantage they can find. And research has shown that resumes with identical credentials lead to calls for interviews at a much higher rate when they appear to come from a white man, as opposed to having a…