Deflating the Bogus Insomnia “Epidemic”
02.22.2008 Corporate interests push profitable paranoia.
by Bruno Maddox
Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: “What Is Magnetism?”
The standard model still doesn't describe magnets' spooky action at a distance. 04.24.2008
The Science At the Very Soul of Cooking
The short line from hunks of meat on spits to cranberry foam on Top Chef 12.27.2007
A Modest Proposal for Science: End It, Don’t Mend It
Science was rendered obsolete by its own smashing victory. 11.06.2007
Quasars Say Earth Is 1/2 a Pinkie Smaller
We now know the planet is quite mushy—but at least we know. 10.12.2007
Google Taught Me How to Cut My Own Hair
In the Internet era, the most accessible information is the most valuable. 09.27.2007
Blinded by Science: Fictional Reality
Sci-fi helped make the present; now it's obsolete. 07.20.2007
The Make-Believe Mars
Earthlings go to Mars-esque locales to prepare for the real thing. 06.21.2007
The Math Behind Beauty
A plastic surgeon computes the perfect face. 06.01.2007
Blinded by Science: IQ Is Dumb
Get ready for gentler aptitude ratings like Ideaphoria and Foresight. 05.23.2007
Blinded by Science: Addicted to Beef
In the face of mad cow disease, why did the British keep eating their beef? 04.12.2007
Blinded by Science: The New Hypnosis
It's benevolent, it's peaceful, and your iPod can be the hypnotist. 03.12.2007
Blinded by Science: Stuck in Creationism
The designers of the Creation Museum insist that science is fundamental. 02.12.2007
Blinded by Science: The Real Reason We Can't Find bin Laden
It is difficult to map a land, and Afghanistan remains as elusive as a terrorist in hiding. 01.16.2007
Blinded by Science: Birding Brains
How birding in Central Park in an age of terror makes the man 11.30.2006
Blinded by Science: Troubled in Twin Town
What a twins convention in the Midwest tells us about the future of humanity. 11.03.2006
Blinded by Science: Who's Freaky Now?
How abhorrence and attraction affect our bioethical judgment. 10.11.2006
Blinded by Science: Hawking's Exit Strategy
Why is one of the thinking community's heavy hitters dabbling in doomsday prophecy? 09.01.2006
Blinded by Science: The Last Days of Gossip
When everyone knows everything, what will be the point? 08.01.2006
Blinded by Science: The Way of All Flesh
Bringing home the bacon may become a thing of the past when we can grow our own. 07.12.2006
Blinded by Science: Nightmare of Divided Loyalties
Fahrenheit has warm familiarity on its side, and Celsius weighs in with cool logic. We need something completely different 06.25.2006
Blinded By Science: What Were We Thinking?
All along it has been the unconscious mind churning away brilliantly and undetectably that has raised us above the din 05.29.2006
Blinded by Science
In praise of the bolder world of the first Internet 04.27.2006