Category: Thinking Meat Project

A few months ago, I saw a post about Cape Cod on NASA’s Earth Observatory. The post showed a pair of satellite images of Cape Cod separated by nearly 30 y...

In fact, many of the trees are already bald. Autumn is well advanced. Last week we celebrated Halloween, which is followed by the Christian feasts of All Saints...

In Washington Monthly, Chris Mooney has reviewed two new books that synthesize what we know to date about how our political outlooks are related to our personal...

We're. not quite like any other animal on Earth. But why? Prof. Kim Hill of Arizona State University explained in a recent talk.

Oliver Sacks describes hallucinations as "an essential part of the human condition," and I describe some experiences with hypnopompic hallucinations, which occu...

A few days ago I ran across a Scientific American blog post that struck me as interesting but somewhat disappointing: Humanities aren’t a science. Stop tr...

One of the things that fascinates me the most about the brain is the way it makes up coherent, mostly convincing stories with great confidence, even in the face...

In E.O. Wilson’s talk at the Consilience Conference, he described ants as “angelic robots,” which we most definitely are not and would not want to b...

The talk by Dan McAdams that I described in my last post was mentioned in a blog post at the Chronicle of Higher Education. In discussing the importance of stor...