Mind Control? It's real … in this fun, kind of creepy demo, the neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member. It's not a parlor trick; it actually works.

Sessions are winding down for the summer but enjoy some photos of our last Botanical Watercolors workshop.

At Cogitania’s Saturday Botany workshop fourth graders learned about Ecosystems and the Water Cycle.

Cogitanians are making leaps in understanding the connections between human hand, its physiology and how to engineer it!

This week’s topic was on fairness. Psychologists often study fairness and altruism by studying people’s behaviors in classic economic games like the Ultimatum Game and the Dictator Game.

At Cogitania’s Saturday Botany workshop fourth graders had their first introduction to plant chemistry (phytochemistry) as it relates to photosynthesis and respiration.

On Tuesday, we reviewed a very classic thought experiment in philosophy: the trolley problem

On Tuesday, we continued talking about conformity bias, which is the tendency to take cues for proper behavior from the actions of others rather than exercise our own independent judgment.

This Monday we finished our work with buoyant forces and we ran several experiments that looked at aspects of air pressure and lift.

All these animals were rescued animals, abandoned after a child did not wish or want them any more as pets. The zoologist and herpetologist (the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians) talked to the kids about having and buying a pet if it is and will be a wild animal.