One is addicted to attention, delusions of grandeur and a belief that money exists in a magical pot that never ends - and the other is Lindsay Lohan. Allysia Finley argues that California is…

One is addicted to attention, delusions of grandeur and a belief that money exists in a magical pot that never ends - and the other is Lindsay Lohan. Allysia Finley argues that California is…

From Neuroanthropology blog Review article Tunnel vision Pinker, Steven. 2002. The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature. London: Penguin. 509 pp. The gap between sociocultural…

In the past, support for environmental initiatives in the United States has been embraced by those on both sides of the aisle. Democrats have also made leaps and bounds in environmental protection…

The most valuable natural resources we have at our disposal during our brief lives are the Earth and the Sun. And if we want life on Earth to continue as we know it, we have to avoid destroying our…

The most valuable natural resources we have at our disposal during our brief lives are the Earth and the Sun. And if we want life on Earth to continue as we know it, we have to avoid destroying our…

Many robot designs are understandably human-looking - they infrequently have legs, since a realistic gait that passes for human is difficult (though see RunBot - Mountaineering Robot and The Science…

You're on this website so you obviously know how to read.  And some regard the digital revolution as a monumental one but there was one even greater; the invention of writing itself. If you are…

The dividing line partitioning protestant congregations which sponsor these receiving textbook classification as Cult organizations is narrow and drawn with a palsy: missing, or at least not…

One of a three part series on epigenetics, transhumanism, and future human evolution. Dr. Bruce Lipton: The Biology of Belief Epigenetics is a relative infant field of scientific study, but has…

City Hall station, which opened in 1904, has been out of use since 1945, but riders can still make the journey to this long-forgotten subway stop - if they know how.   John-Paul Palescandolo was…

City Hall station, which opened in 1904, has been out of use since 1945, but riders can still make the journey to this long-forgotten subway stop - if they know how.   John-Paul Palescandolo was…

I'm not saying a belief that religion will prevent global warming should mean an immediate disqualification as chair of the House Energy Committee - but I am not saying it shouldn't either.…

I'm not saying a belief that religion will prevent global warming should mean an immediate disqualification as chair of the House Energy Committee - but I am not saying it shouldn't either.…

Let's be honest; life began on land.  I know, I know, that is blasphemy and Neil Shubin will stand on high and strike me down with my inner fish for saying such a thing, but while life began in…

Hurricane forecasts were way off again last year so if you're still wondering if a trained chimp 'can predict hurricanes better than NOAA'(1) a Nature Geoscience article has good news for you;…

May beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It's a possibility, some archaeologists say. Their argument is that Stone Age farmers were domesticating cereals not so much to fill their…

We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we…

May beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It's a possibility, some archaeologists say. Their argument is that Stone Age farmers were domesticating cereals not so much to fill their…

We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we…