You've probably wondered how wildlife filmmakers are able to follow a polar bear and her cub across a year. Or get perfect close-up shots of a bear feasting on a […]

The NASA Earth Observatory posted an excellent image today of the erupting volcano Shiveluch on the Kamchatka Peninsula. This isolated part of eastern Russia is one of the most volcanically […]

The Feast Conference is a social innovation summit gathering some of the world's most compelling thinkers and doers from a cross-disciplinary spectrum of innovation, inspiration and empowerment. Last year, The […]

The amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in the limbic system, is where the the brain processes and reacts to frightening stimuli. Because of its mechanism, our emotional responses to situations that feel dangerous are often unconscious.

Investments in areas like alternative energy sources have a negative cost differential in the short run, even though they may pay off in 20 or 30 years. And what about […]

"Brain imaging is not a very good way to test subtle distinctions [in the brain]...it's like trying to find out something about New York City by studying New York State," […]

The neuroscientist recounts some of the breakthroughs that have come out of his world-renowned lab.

Some rats are naturally more fearful than others. The neuroscientist's current research focuses on what these outliers can tell us about the psychopathology of fear in humans.

Animal studies allow neuroscientists to study the brain at the level of individual neurons, unlike human brain-imaging studies.

The amygdala is responsible for implicit memories, but these are different from what Freud called the unconscious.

The neuroscientist gives a short primer on the brain's emotional processor.

A conversation with the neuroscientist.

While I was out of town last week I got a lot of reading done. One of the books I picked up was the paperback version of Palace Council by […]

"There's no true power struggle within the Republican Party over 'tea party' candidates." Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg debunks the media narrative du jour.

Subtitled Bollywood films are proving a boon to literacy in India. The Boston Globe reports that communities gather around old TV sets for entertainment and education.

"People's willingness to believe or discount scientists depends mostly on ideology, or what a new study's authors call 'cultural cognition'." The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

"He’s been sly, sad, unwatchably private, two writers and a drag queen, and now he’s directing. Tom Shone traces the career of Philip Seymour Hoffman."

"Are Georgia, Alabama and Florida fighting over water or over growth?" The Economist explains that population growth has put pressure on regional water resources.

"New case studies focus on rare illusory body perceptions that could answer questions about how we maintain a 'self'." Scientific American on how the mind invents the 'I'.

"Food is at the center of health and illness and so doctors must make all aspects of it—growing, buying, cooking, eating—a mainstay of their personal lives and practices."