The most dangerous stunt "The Great Throwdini" has ever attempted involved catching bullets, knives, and arrows—and it did not go according to plan.

The Great Throwdini shows us his favorite projectiles and explains the mechanics of making them always hit the right spot.

David Adamovich didn’t start throwing knives until he was 50 years old. He admits that in his career as a thrower he's "scraped" a girl. But "I’ve never impaled the […]

A conversation with the world’s fastest knife-thrower.

Save yourself the time and effort: parents have much less influence over their children's personality than we think, says controversial psychologist Judith Rich Harris. 

While over $300 billion worth of prescription drugs were sold in the U.S. in 2009, the pharmaceutical industry is now bringing fewer new drugs to market each year now than […]

My new television show "Sci-Fi Science" on The Science Channel is inspired by my book "Physics of the Impossible." The first season of the show takes viewers through the wildest […]

My new television show "Sci-Fi Science" on The Science Channel is inspired by my book "Physics of the Impossible." The first season of the show takes viewers through the wildest […]

My new television show "Sci-Fi Science" on The Science Channel is inspired by my book "Physics of the Impossible." The first season of the show takes viewers through the wildest […]

Following up on Monday’s post about WikiLeaks, today I address the moral correctness of the organization. There is no evidence that WikiLeaks disclosed the names of Afghan informants; there is inductive evidence that […]

Stanley Fish argues that plagiarism is not a "big moral deal" because the taboo against passing off someone else's work as your own is just an arbitrary disciplinary convention. Fish […]

"America has always been the country in the world with more protection for speech," says legendary First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams, adding, "there's really an astonishing, a breathtaking degree of […]

Abrams weighs in on the Supreme Court’s free speech decisions on the non-profit corporation Citizens United’s right to broadcast a film critical of Hilary Clinton ahead of the 2008 election […]

Abrams' initial interest was in English law, which is less protective of free speech. As he learned more about the role that journalists can play at their best—and about the […]

Our understanding of the First Amendment is in flux. According to Abrams, these five cases have deeply shaped how freedoms of speech, press, and religion have come to be defined.

Abrams, who worked on the Pentagon Papers case, talks about how Julian Assange's exposés about U.S. policy are different from Daniel Ellsberg's revelations about Vietnam.

The U.S. has an "astonishing" and "breathtaking" degree of freedom for people, organizations, and institutions to have their say. Abrams talks about where this freedom meets its limits.

The legendary First Amendment lawyer gives a primer on what everyone needs to know about freedoms of religion, speech and press.

A conversation with the legendary First Amendment attorney.

Salt and Salander flip conventional notions of gender roles. Are they the new models of millennial femininity while sacrificing being "real" women, asks Luisita Lopez Torregrosa.