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Prayer effectively deals with sympathetic magic—the notion that your thoughts can alter reality from a distance, or influence outcomes in your life which you have no conscious control over.
Just as artists are using technology to enable participation, doctors need to do that too.
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Art and science are really not that different in their objective. Just they’re different in the way they approach it.
Congressional lawmakers are understandably miffed about the latest Cuban holiday of international superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z, who spent the weekend in Havana celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary accompanied by paparazzi, bodyguards […]
On the question of whether or not black people can swim the answer is yes, no and maybe. I asked the question in my book of a very special panel. […]
1. The Topless Revolution Targets Putin "Putin leered like Benny Hill at a topless protester," was the headline on The Reliable Source. Gawker has the video of Putin giving the thumb's up. […]
Not current smartphone users, who already have lots of app options: It's the estimated 1.5 billion -- most of them in the developing world -- who are expected to buy their first smartphone in the next four years.
Fellow pseudonymous neuroblogger Neuroskeptic(to whom I owe a great deal in inspiration) has published a fantastic piece in Trends in Cognitive Sciences ($) on the benefits to science of anonymity. Last November Neuroskeptic became […]
The American Founders were deeply suspicious of Democracy, and structured a Constitution designed to protect both personal liberties and property from the tyranny of the majority. But the critical problem […]
Taking the paywall concept in a different direction, a Dutch news site offers its readers the option to subscribe to an individual journalist's "channel" for a small fee.
"Although we often stereotype givers as chumps and doormats, they turn out to be surprisingly successful." So writes Adam Grant in his celebrated new book, Give and Take: A Revolutionary […]
I often have pointed out that interviewing people gives me the opportunity to shut the fuck up. I don’t have to talk. There’s certainly this idea that interviewing doesn’t involve […]
So I've been thinking a lot about the charge that conservatives are bad because they hate science. But it's just not true. Here's a beginning of my explanation why. We […]
We live in an amazing era of technology-driven transformation that’s redefining how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and educate—all in an amazingly short period of time. With that […]
Like many sites, BigThink has a Terms of Use section. If certain members of Congress have their way, an amended Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could make violating those terms a criminal offense.
With the slow death of "appointment television" comes an increasing tendency for spoilers to pop up in unexpected places. Writer Sean T. Collins discusses fans' and critics' attempts to preserve the suspense.
As autonomous cars slowly move closer to reality, designers from different disciplines are looking at how they will change the rules of the road, as well as the road itself.
When I was a teen-age consumer of cheap paperbacks about worlds more interesting than this one, I noticed a clear and sharp split between readers who loved SF (spaceships, time […]
The Belgian founder of five clinics says the poor are most acutely affected by pain and as a result are the ideal candidates for "humanitarian acupuncture."