Lately, mainstream scientists have been inching toward similar conclusions about the positive therapeutic potential of hallucinogenic drugs, says Annie Murphy.
Search Results
You searched for: -- --
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This question, posed by psychologist Steven Pinker, has garnered over 150 responses at Edge.org.
MP3s aren’t free and Piracy is, as of this moment and for want of a better word, theft. Is there any other crime people are so completely and disarmingly blasé about committing?
Spaces between words were only invented around 800 or 900 AD, before which reading was a more cognitively intensive act. The advent of eReaders threatens to revive this complexity, says […]
▸
3 min
—
with
If you want to change your brain, you have to change your habits—but good luck avoiding the Internet in this day and age!
▸
2 min
—
with
The map, the mechanical clock and the printing press are all examples of “intellectual technologies” that have reshaped the way humans think. And the ways of thinking that we learned […]
▸
5 min
—
with
A conversation with the technology writer.
▸
16 min
—
with
Sex educator Jessi Fischer on why and how we vilify male sexuality: “The falsehood that men are brutes who can’t control their sex drive is harmful to everyone.”
A study has found an unexpected sex difference in the effects of caffeine consumption on performance under stress. Men fared worse and women better.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator tells Spiegel about the dangers of waging cyber warfare against Iran’s nuclear facilities and the West’s false expectations for upcoming talks.
Multiculturalism critic Kenan Malik: The very thing that diversity is good for is the very thing that multiculturalism as a political process undermines.
Steve Jobs isn’t saying why he’s taking a medical leave. Slate asks: Is that fair to Apple investors?
Would we celebrate this tableau of human good nature so enthusiastically if we did not also fear, somewhere in our hearts, that we might have reacted differently?
A border collie in South Carolina has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that may help explain how children acquire language.
Could online galleries prove a successful sales innovation for a struggling art industry? The first virtual contemporary art fair is about to be launched.
I’ve yet to go to the cinema to watch ‘Kings Speech’, which is currently the talk of Hollywood. Those who have come back enthused, including some of those who are not […]
Scientists have come a step closer to gaining complete control over a mind, even if that mind belongs to a creature the size of a grain of sand.
Europe is in deep crisis — because its proudest achievement, the single currency adopted by most European nations, is now in danger.
The fall of the Tunisian president Ben Ali played out for all the world on Twitter, some dubbing it a “Twitter Revolution” like the election protests in Iran and Moldovia.
Internet debate can be coarse, but it is holding journalists and politicians to account, writes Boris Johnson. What are we going to do about the lawyers, he asks.
A new film explores how globalization has resulted in crises of the economy, the environment and the human spirit — and points the way to a new path.
Faced with a public health crisis, Portugal decriminalized the possession of all illicit drugs. Nearly a decade later, there’s evidence that its great drug experiment may have worked.
Forget that old tagline about the Internet being an information “superhighway”. The online world is an information battlefield with pranksters and pragmatists struggling to be heard.
The shortage of web addresses is “not a crisis but getting more urgent”, say analysts. The web is running out of addresses and IPv6 is the answer.
When future astronomers look to the sky, they will no longer witness the past. Observations will reveal nothing but an endless stretch of inky black stillness.
Former New York commodities trader Vincent McCrudden was charged in federal court this week with threatening to kill 47 current and former federal regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission […]
One day we might be able to download our consciousness into a computer chip, preserving our personalities forever—but first we will have to better understand brain architecture.
▸
2 min
—
with
It is no longer conflict between heavily armed superpowers, but rather spreading food shortages and rising food prices that threatens our global future.
Matt Warman examines the new ‘Conversation Mode’ for Google Translate for Android, and asks what’s next for the search giant.
How do contemporary intellectuals corrupt their calling? “The intellectual life reduces itself to functional nihilism, warding off despair only by means of attacking the latest ideology.”