Author: Mary

Hardly anyone wants to grow old (although it beats the only available alternative), but the results of a recent survey indicate that, contrary to popular belief...

To some extent, who we are is who we remember being. (I am crudely paraphrasing someone, I think John Locke.) A couple of researchers at Concordia University re...

My earliest memory goes back to when I was three years old and my parents brought my little sister home from the hospital (at least that’s the earliest on...

Edge has recently posted an essay by Daniel Gilbert, a researcher whose subject is happiness. Among other things, Gilbert talks about why the study of happiness...

I’m in the process of buying a house, which is why I’ve been blogging a little less frequently. This week the house was inspected and a major proble...

This essay from The Edge examines the prospects for the emergence of a third culture in which the natural sciences join the humanities in explaining why we feel...

Late Thursday night, five singers, students at IU’s Jacobs School of Music, were killed when their plane crashed coming into Bloomington’s airport. ...

When I read Sam Harris’s The End of Faith recently, I was struck by some of the things he said about meditation and consciousness, like the following: ...