Robby Berman

Robby Berman

Contributing Writer

I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
Henry Rollins talks about how fear of winding up starting in The America drove his to his remarkable career.
Michio Kaku tells the story of one super-scary mistake in physics and reminds us how hard it is to get science right.
Many of our best U.S presidents qualify as psychopaths, while Hitler doesn’t.
Richard Gleick talks about one vital trait geniuses all seem to share.
Ricky Gervais explains how he stopped believing in God and how to be Christian without God or religion.
Michio Kaku suggests that we lack to evolutionary pressure these days to keep evolving in any significant way.
Penn Jillette explains how it’s more respectful to argue than just let anyone believe anything.
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what’s so completely mind-blowing about the great mind of Sir Isaac Newton.
Bill Nye explains the ways in which creationism hurts kids by making scientific inquiry impossible.
Mongolia becomes the world’s first country to switch to the what3words system of addresses.
Researchers present what they’ve learned now that they can read the tiny text inside the Antikythera mechanism.
United Egg Producers agree to eliminate male chick culling by switching to in-ovo terminations.
Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.
Physicists confirm the presence of a second layer if information in DNA that determines how it folds and what kind of cells it creates.
The FAA has issued a mysterious advisory telling pilots not to trust their GPS for several days this June.
Two new particles, one maybe seen and one theoretical, have the physics community buzzing.
The value and morality of zoos is being questioned after the tragic shooting of a gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo.
Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit is a classic freedom of the press case dressed up as a soap opera.
The key to breaking a lateness habit is patient brain retraining.
Neurotechnology pioneers envision an expanded future for humanity straight out of science fiction.