Guest Thinkers — August 25, 2011

Useful Hurricane-Prep Tool For New Yorkers: Find Out If You Live in an Evacuation Zone

No hurricane evacuation order has been issued for New York City, but City officials haven’t ruled out the possibility. Meanwhile, you can plug your address into this useful official City database to find out whether you live in an evacuation zone.

[Photo credit: Kyle McCluer, Creative Commons.]

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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