Guest Thinkers — September 1, 2010

Get registered at ScienceBlogs

Take part in a poll about the new reader features starting up soon on ScienceBlogs.

Starting sometime later this fall, readers on ScienceBlogs will be able to register with SB to create user profiles, keep track of stories and all that good stuff that social networking has created. In an effort to make it something useful to the readers, the head honchos at SB have set up a poll for readers concerning the new features. Why not wander over there and take the poll to make sure Eruptions readers get their voices heard.

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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.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

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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