A few thoughts on your lazy brain. But just a few because, well, you know, the brain likes things nice and easy. The brain normally operates on what […]
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How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
The Earth Return Orbiter is part of a long-term mission to search for ancient alien life on Mars.
A Mars Space Flight team member warns that people need to be prepared for what’s coming.
A new children’s program may help displaced Syrian children find stability and belonging in their new communities.
The laws of physics are not time-reversal invariant. Here’s how we know. No matter when, where, or what you are in the Universe, you experience time in only one direction: forwards. […]
It’s illegal to discriminate against people based on their gender, race, or religion. What about veganism?
Don’t get too excited, there is a catch to the study.
He was recruited by Jim Henson himself in 1969.
Just ten rivers are responsible for up to 95% of all river-borne plastic trash that ends up in the sea. Silver lining: cleaning them up would have a huge positive impact.
The speed of light is a universal constant, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that light always travels at that speed, does it? “There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was […]
How did New York end up there?
“If all that liberals can do in response is continue to lie about the causes of terrorism and lock arms with Islamists, we have some very rough times ahead,” writes Sam Harris.
The gun industry is in the business of selling its products. Exploiting our belief system is part of its corporate model.
Researchers at the University College of London have proposed the development of a centralized digital currency. It’s unlike Bitcoin, but has all its benefits.
There is a lot of hypocrisy in the way Naomi Oreskes attacks four renowned climate scientists.
With the addition of Julia, a character with autism, Sesame Street (unlike The Muppets) keeps up with the times without losing its soul.
There are some weak arguments against marriage equality. Then there’s this one.
Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris advocates for a secular form of meditation as a method for making fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind.
The annual rite of February’s African-American History Month in America feels more and more like a mixed blessing with each passing year. On one hand, setting aside time to learn […]
A few days ago, 64 influential Catholics appealed to their co-religionists in Congress to support gun-control legislation. They laid down a pretty solid Catholic guilt trip: Members of Congress who […]
My brother Erik Nisbet, a professor at The Ohio State University, has a study out that casts important new light on how Americans reacted to the news of the death […]
When you hear the name Samuel F. B. Morse you most likely think about Morse code or the telegraph. In reality, Morse only co-invented the code that bears his name […]
Yesterday the CTC Sentinel released a special issue on al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden. You can read the entire thing here. There are a number of incredibly […]
What is it about power that changes people – or if not changes, brings out those aspects of them that had heretofore lain dormant? As the old adage goes, power […]
As a result of the economic downturn and the cancellation of the Constellation program, it’s now Shuttle Endeavor’s turn to take it’s last voyage into space. After a postponement of […]