Category: Thinking Meat Project

In his book Out of Control, Kevin Kelly wrote: To evolve is to surrender choices. To become something new is to accumulate all the things you can no longer be. ...

I once heard a naturalist and nature photographer who specializes in wildlife and plants explain his interest in geology by saying, “You have to have some...

Every day in my inbox I get a book review from the independent bookseller Powells.com. Usually they’re reviews of current books, but occasionally theyR...

Some recent research indicates that chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives, do not go through menopause as humans do. For female chimpanzees, reproductive c...

Time flies when you’re having fun, the saying goes, and it often seems that in emergency situations time slows down. However, a recent experiment indicate...

One of the things I remember hearing when I was growing up was the advice: “When a job is once begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be it great or ...

I had never run across the concept of a wicked problem before yesterday, but I’m finding it to be a fascinating concept. A wicked problem has no single so...

This essay by biologist E.O. Wilson, published on the New Scientist site, is an excerpt from his afterword to an edition of four books by Darwin that was publis...

So what exactly is a religion? More specifically, does the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (aka Pastafarianism) count? The CFSM grew from an amusing lett...