What happens to our brains when we sit at our computers for long periods of time interacting with the cyber world? This question was considered in an article called "Meet Your iBrain," appearing in the October/November 2008 issue of scientific American Mind. The authors cite a 2005 Kaiser family foundation…
It's a simple problem in mechanics, and several stuffed animals weigh in.
This is how Earth looks from Saturn. That's 930 million miles away (ten times the distance from the Earth to the Sun). Kind of puts things in perspective.
Alternet has interviewed Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker on the credibility of science.  Pinker's answer bears on many of the discussions we've had at this site. In the following excerpt, Pinker distinguishes the scientific method from the "method" of politics, though his logic applies to most things that are not science…
Stephen Strogatz is a mathematician who has studied synchrony in nature. Synchrony is the "spontaneous tendency of separate entities to act as a unit." Strogatz finds synchrony "everywhere" in nature. He stresses that you don't need to be smart to synchronize, nor do you need to have a brain or…