Author: Mary

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...

One of my sons keeps pet snakes. When he was younger, I had some contact with the snakes and was struck by the degree to which they seem to have distinct person...