In a panel discussion last night following Feisel Abdul Rauf's appearance on CNN Larry King Live, host Anderson Cooper and new primetime personalities Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer framed Rauf's […]

One orthodoxy has long dominated neuropsychology: the brain controls the mind, which has no independent existence outside of the chemical reactions and patterns which constantly fire inside our brains. Neuro-biologists have long held that the brain exclusively drives the mind, and that the mind serves only the individual self.

Feisel Abdul Rauf returned to the United States last weekend and yesterday began the urgent process of telling his side of the story. As I wrote previously, power in politics […]

"My problem is that consumer technology moves in a single direction: It’s constantly making it easier for us to perceive the content." Jonah Lehrer laments the rise of e-books.

"Basically, we’ve bought into several misconceptions about excellence, which are not only wrong but affirmatively counterproductive." Peter Orszag on how to be successful.

"American investors have filed several lawsuits to pressure Germany to honor bonds issued by the Weimar Republic. Berlin says a deadline for registering the bonds passed decades ago."

"We have entered the post-art era, Kundera declares in Encounter—'a world where art is dying because the need for art, the sensitivity and the love for it, is dying.'”

"A unique particle physics detector will be attached to the space station to study the universe and its origins." The machine will be carried on the last scheduled shuttle launch next February.

"We shouldn't forget that the modern market economy is the greatest communal enterprise ever undertaken." Jonah Goldberg praises free market capitalism for its complexity.

"Study shows that fatter men last longer in bed. Should Americans rejoice?" Slate covers Turkish research concluding that the less masculine a man's body, the better lover he is.

"Most artists have shied away from 9/11 as a theme in recent years, and who can blame them?" Art critic Richard Woodward says artists should again take on the events of 9/11.

"Google has announced that it will begin to roll out 'Instant' search results around the world." The Telegraph reports on the Internet giant's innovation in search technology.

Forget height and social status when you are on the dance floor, it is all about how you move. New research identifies the dance moves that make men most attractive to women.

I found myself in a movie theater this weekend, cooling my heels along with the rest of my tribe as we watched the movie Takers. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t be writing […]

“Hey, Kiddo.” When she was a young girl, Berkeley Reinhold would pick up the phone and hear Andy Warhol greet her with those words. Although he was calling for her […]

President Obama doesn’t get enough credit. As fellow Big Thinker Kris Broughton wrote in a recent post, it's ridiculous to say that Obama hasn’t accomplished much while in office, whatever […]

So let’s now speak about the future. You may have heard about the asteroid Apophis, which is about the size of the Rose Bowl Stadium. It’s said that the large […]

University classes are starting so I thought I would write a blog post that would encourage students to think about the world. This idea came from a project that was […]

How about this for some real corporate mumbo jumbo? BP’s own internal report into the Deepwater Horizon disaster mixes the technical with the pseudo diplomatic. But there is no doubt […]

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