Category: Thinking Meat Project

Today’s post is a bit outside the normal orbit of Thinking Meat, but it touches on a couple of themes that are dear to my heart: the immense value of huma...

An ad appeared recently on Bloomington buses that said, “You can be good without god.” It seemed like a fairly obvious statement to me, but it took ...

These days I’ve been experimenting with baking bread using various sourdough cultures. Furthermore, my interest in wine has certainly deepened over the la...

Music is surprisingly mysterious, for something so ubiquitous. For example, it’s not really clear why we generally associate major keys with happy moods a...

A new article in The Atlantic has rocked my world in a way that articles anywhere seldom do. David Dobbs explains a new hypothesis regarding genes, environment,...

Der Spiegel has interviewed Umberto Eco about an exhibit he is curating at the Louvre. The exhibit focuses on the importance of lists to culture and art. It may...

When our long-ago ancestors left east Africa and spread to Europe, how did they get across the currently forbidding landscape of the Sahara? A recent analysis o...

It’s easy to wonder to what degree humans are still subject to natural selection; from the perspective of someone living in an industrialized western nati...

Fans of the surreal, take heart. Recent research suggests that reading stories involving bizarre events that don’t necessarily make sense can temporarily ...

I went to an interesting talk today, one of Indiana University’s themester activities. Steven Gaulin of UC Santa Barbara spoke about work he has done with...