Did you even know there was a discipline called paleomagnetics?   Probably not.(1)   It isn't easy to find a category on this site to put it in, that's for sure. But a discipline it is and…

The truth of the situation is this; notice this: you are conversing with a friend on any topic. Next, a pretty woman enters the room, and immediately the intent of the conversationalists changes,…

HOW DO WE KNOW WHO WE ARE?     June 9 2009   Ayad Izzet Gharbawi         How many people do you know are honest with themselves?   How many people do you…

    THE UNITY OF THE MIND – OR NOT?   Ayad Izzet Gharbawi   July, 2009   Let us take an Observer (O) who is sitting on a chair and in front of him is a table, upon which sits…

  THE SPEED OF TIME IN RELATION TO THE MIND Ayad Gharbawi August 4, 2009 - Damascus   Is there a ‘speed of time’ in relation to the Mind? I will argue, that yes, there is a ‘speed of time’,…

WHO AM ‘I’?Ayad Gharbawi   2 Persons Talking: 1 is Person One, and 2 is Person 2. July, 2009   1: What is your problem? 2: I don’t know ‘who’ I am? 1: ‘Who’ do you want to be? 2: I don’t…

Can it be possible that the atoms simply ‘know’ what to do as they interact with other atoms and molecules? Do they have any degree of consciousness or self-awareness like animals do? Or, are they…

Ever play games in school?  Ever have the teacher suggest you play games?  Heck, ever had your entire middle and high school curricula be designed around games?   In a news piece…

After wrapping up the minutiae of funding, we're finally entering the lab for Project Calliope.  Next week, I get to build a model ionosphere and replicate a spinning satellite to test what sort…

The science of Chaos is usually defined as the systematic study of non-linear processes within dynamic turbulent systems (see www.hesiodproject.net). Vivid examples of such systems are: the global…

Everyday use of a mathematical concept The concept of probability is not alien to even the least mathematically versed among us: even those who do not remember the basic math they had in primary…

The diagnosis of mental health disorders in the US has nearly doubled in the past 20 years and clinical psychologists and therapists are on the front lines of handling it but many are falling short…

Journalists can't seem to write an article about Humboldt squid without mentioning their "Mexican name" diablo rojo. But in all my squid trips to the Gulf of California, I've never yet heard a…

Mind over matter. Think happy thoughts. Don't worry be happy. Accentuate the positive. Is happiness really that simple? Sure, it's easy to say, "Think positively." But to actually do it? Not so much…

In the first article, we explored the determinism of the brain and considered that within the constraints of brain physiology it is clear that random or indeterminate processes cannot be responsible…

In my recent article on Understanding natural selection in E:EO, I reviewed a large number of studies that examined conceptions of evolution among students from the high school to undergraduate level…

Tomorrow's Science will be a special issue reporting tons of new information on the fossil hominid Ardipithecus ramidus ("Ardi"), which is really exciting (though not as much as Darwinius, which was…

This seems to be a simple enough question: what exactly constitutes the definition of ‘life’? Let us begin, at the beginning – as they say. Life, according to scientists, begins at the cellular…

Is 'dark energy', the mysterious unidentified thing that would be a nice explanation for a lot of universal questions, physics or religion?  Maybe baryon oscillations can tell us.   Baryon…

Researchers writing in Science have described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.   The last common ancestor shared by humans and…