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Looking to past elections to predict the outcome of one soon to come doesn't usually work that well. Back in October 2008, I looked to eight past elections to try […]
Marc Goodman tells Big Think that in the future "the virtual agents of good and evil will do battle in cyberspace--making this a very interesting field to be in!"
Psychology and neuroscience research indicates that willpower is something that can be developed and enhanced with practice. With that in mind, ex-smokers are willpower kings.
Vivid commercials are incredibly good at tricking the brain's long-term memory center into believing that the scene we just watched on television actually happened. And it happened to us.
For some people, seeing pain in someone else is more than emotionally distressing: they feel the pain in their own body too. Now some of the pathways involved have been identified.
How do thoughts arise in your brain? Rather than selecting them consciously, the brain's default-mode network analyzes a situation and determines what your priorities should be.
Krista and Tatiana Hogan are four-year-old twins conjoined at the head, their brains linked by neural pathways that allow them to share the same physical experiences, their doctor says.
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Kennedy realized that people were agreeing with him and with each other because they didn’t want to feel out of place.
Buzz has been building about the possibility of that Sarah Palin will run for President after all. Palin announced on Thursday that she will launch a bus tour of key […]
As I was listening to Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers last night while surfing the web, I discovered that Gil Scott Heron had died. Heron has always been an […]
That the former Serb General Ratko Mladic was able to escape detection for sixteen years, beggars belief. The relative’s house he used as a ‘safe house’ was reportedly searched some […]
Caltech professor Sean Carroll: "If you claim that some form of soul persists beyond death, what particles is that soul made of? What forces are holding it together? How does it interact with ordinary matter?"
Beyond the online condemnation for two Toronto parents who reportedly refuse to make public the gender of their youngest child, there's a deeper question on how gender forms, scientists say.
Remarkable genetic differences between a brain of an autistic person and a person without autism found by U.C.L.A. researchers have changed the way doctors and researchers think about autism.
The Obama administration is about to ditch the food pyramid, that symbol of healthy eating for the last two decades. In its place officials are dishing up a simple, plate-shaped symbol.
You think you own the right to your own genetics, but actually someone else owns 20 percent of your genes. How can that be? Biotech companies are snatching up the patent rights.
Surrealism never served its women well. Lee Miller basically seduced Man Ray to gain entry into what was predominantly a men’s club. Leonora Carrington met Max Ernst at a party. […]
Tim Harford, known as the "Malcolm Gladwell of Britain" shares two lessons that illustrate the virtue of dissent: the War in Iraq and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Examples of military leadership in Iraq show us the limitations of leadership that stomps out dissent.
Robert Pinsky takes his poem "The City" and transforms it into a Tweet.