Category: Thinking Meat Project

In recent years we’ve learned that a number of capabilities we once thought unique to humans are in fact shared by other species: tool use, some aspects o...

The other day I ran across this post at Brains on Purpose, which I found very interesting and somewhat discomfiting, as it describes the dangers of popularizing...

This article from the New York Times discusses several online dating services that try to use scientific methods to help people find the best long-term romantic...

I had a dream once where there was some kind of gizmo that I could hook up to my brain (painlessly, no mess) and then use to play back my memories on a TV scree...

There seems to be something inherent in human beings that makes them relatively unhappy in their middle years. Researchers analyzed data from people all around ...

One of the books I’m reading at the moment is Ilium, a science fiction novel by Dan Simmons that is set in the future and features such exotica as quantum...

We all anthropomorphize from time to time. I’ve speculated about whether we sometimes do this because we feel an irrepressible urge to attribute a mind li...

Wait a minute, shouldn’t that header say “A smiling face”? No; voices can show a smile too. Researchers videotaped test subjects who were answ...

The American Astronomical Society is holding its annual meeting in Austin, so you might notice that Thinking Meat is taking on a definitely star-struck feel thi...