Author: Mary

For some reason the subject of diaries has come up several times in my life lately. Actually the subject of unexpected death has been on my mind, for a variety ...

In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins started out by describing what he called Einsteinian religion—the metaphorical use of religious terms to refer to the sum t...

To follow up on yesterday’s post about all the processing that goes on in the brain outside of conscious awareness, here’s a story from EurekAlert a...

The New York Times recently published an article about subconscious mental processing. It describes a number of unexpected findings (e.g., people who are unobtr...

The saying about walking a mile in someone else’s shoes does not, of course, have anything to do with pedestrian activities, but with the need to understa...

I realize I’m stretching the Thinking Meat theme with this post, but the story touches on so many of my favorite things that I’ve just got to write ...

Knowledge is power, right? I usually assume that learning more about science or technology is helpful when it comes time to form an opinion or determine a corre...

This article from American Scientist describes a recent project that surveyed the religious beliefs of 149 prominent evolutionary scientists. Three previous pol...