Even though she hates lawn ornaments, Sharon Roseman, 68, has a grinning, pink lobster outside her home in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. She calls him Louie, and when she comes home, the lobster’s gaudy ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We all know people who say they have “no ...

Disorientation is an altered mental state. A person who’s disoriented may not know their location and identity, or the time and date. Disorientation can be a symptom of different medical conditions.