Category: Thinking Meat Project

The EPOXI mission of NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures of Earth late in May 2008 from 31 million miles away, with the goal of examining Earth as...

Humankind’s urge to seek patterns and ability to recognize them—or even to find them where they don’t exist—is well known and is arguably one of our...

The New Yorker had a good article this week about the work of Irene Pepperberg, the researcher who worked with the African gray parrot Alex until his death last...

Well, I’m back from a wonderful trip to the Southwest, and the first thing I saw when I went to EurekAlert was this press release about dictionaries and b...

I’m going to be away from the blog for a few days, so I’ll leave you a few big things to chew over this weekend. First, from Edge.org, this article ...

Anyone who knows me has probably heard me fulminate about the mad proliferation of choices we face when shopping. Do we really need a dozen flavors of Cheez-Its...

The New York Times has a good article on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and creativity. FTD is a rare disorder, or perhaps more accurately a cluster of related d...

This story from New Scientist describes the latest news about the intelligence of birds in the crow family, in this case rooks. Pairs of birds were able to figu...

This is the second year in which Daylight Saving Time in the US began at the new, earlier date of the second Sunday in March. I hate the whole concept of DST, a...

One standard piece of advice to novice writers is to try to separate the production and editing phases of writing. In other words, when you’re creating ne...