What a golden age these past few decades have been for learning about how human cognition works. And what a humbling age, as we discover the truth that satirist […]
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Numerous online tools are available to help you figure out your risk of a wide range of health outcomes; diabetes, stroke, heart disease, various kinds of cancer, (see Your […]
In numerous health surveys around the world many smokers report that graphic images motivate them to quit. Non-smokers say they feel deterred from ever picking up a pack.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
Philosophy isn’t stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
We’ve fooled ourselves before with galaxies that look just like this one. The evidence we have simply isn’t strong enough.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
India finishes last of 60 countries in environment and sustainability, as ranked by the expats who work there.
We all know somebody who avoids meat. These schools of thought suggest those people are onto something.
It’s the largest, most massive planet in the Solar System. But what’s the real story behind all the impacts on Jupiter? One of the most terrifying prospects here on Earth is […]
This parody documentary skewers both the skeptic and the superstitious, and accurately shows what issues skeptics face.
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And could what we see over there spell disaster for Earth? “An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered […]
What is Punk? Punk isn’t about mohawks or studded leather, says Henry Rollins – it’s about resistance to tyranny in any form. How Art Can Change Society, with Sarah Lewis Sarah […]
Don’t read this blog post. Definitely don’t read it to the end. Didn’t I tell you not to read this blog post? You’re still doing it… We can laugh at […]
Companies need to test their most interesting people now, to get them ready to take over soon. The markets demand this, and ignoring the markets is always foolhardy.
In the early 1850s, Daniel McCallum, the General Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad, had a problem. At the time, the New York and Erie Railway was the […]
This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major topics and provide […]
This semester, 22 undergraduate and graduate students from a diversity of majors at American University have participated in a new course that I created titled “Science, Environment and the Media.” […]
Random musings. Half-finished (and quite possibly half-baked) thoughts. Things that have caught my eye… Interesting perspectives on the infamous software study “We now have educational software that is just as […]
This semester I am teaching an interdisciplinary course on “Science, the Environment, and the Media.” The 25 combined undergraduate and graduate students in the course have split into project teams […]
Do you have to be religious to see a face in burnt toast? Probably not, but believers are more likely to attribute such a face to Jesus (1). Believer in […]
I am back from an excellent science journalism conference in Denmark and will have more to say on the meeting which highlighted several issues that speak directly to challenges faced […]
Is there such a thing as collective guilt? Or if not that, then at least some kind of national responsibility for past state crimes? Was the Nazi period a freak of history, […]