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Larry Arnhart, that rare student of political philosophy who claims to be Darwinian all the way down, criticizes me for saying Darwin is only partly right: Of course, many people […]
A new study of 20 health-related sites demonstrated that many contain tracking elements and/or leak search terms to third-party companies, providing data that "could [help] build up a very powerful document with all of your medical conditions."
That's the claim being made by documentary filmmaker Chris Barrett, who is responsible for what may be the first-ever arrest captured using the device.
If you’re like most Americans, you probably spent most of the long Fourth of July weekend hanging out at a family BBQ, watching baseball, enjoying the fireworks and… obsessively checking […]
Up until 800 years ago, guilt and innocence in the UK was regularly determined not by judge and jury but through a process known as trial by ordeal: “There were […]
The Australian Paul Mathis has apparently spent nearly $40,000 developing a new symbol and advocating its inclusion as the 27th letter of the alphabet.
In the July issue of The Scientist magazine, my colleague Declan Fahy and I contributed a commentary discussing the need for scientists and ethicists to engage the public on major trends and […]
For the May/June issue of Canada’s Policy Options magazine, I contributed an article adapted from my Spring 2013 Shorenstein Center paper examining the career of environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben. With anticipation building over Obama’s […]
Ron Miller has painted the planets as if they were the same distance from Earth as the Moon, in order to demonstrate their size.
I didn't want to write this, but then I don't want to write most of the things I do: I shouldn't need to tell anyone why thinking gay marriage will […]
At the New Scientist magazine last week, I was asked to provide an analysis of UK environment minister Owen Paterson’s announcement that his government would seek to change the conversation about food […]
In the hours following the deaths of more than 50 Egyptians in Cairo earlier today there were wildly divergent accounts of what actually happened. Here is a summary, from Wendell […]
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found Mexico to be the world's most obese country with an obesity rate of 32.8 percent, a full point higher than the United States'.
A month or two ago I wrote about the rampant proliferation of “hotness” ratings for women where they have no business or place. Even the most accomplished women, ranging from […]
An Australian restaurateur has proposed that the most commonly used word in the English language get a symbol of its very own, one that's borrowed from the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet: Ћ.
An orchestral symphony has a lot of instruments, but you tend to concentrate on the soloists.
In honor of Bastille Day, we are looking at five French ideas and how they have influenced the world.