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How a Flawed Experiment “Proved” That Free Will Doesn’t Exist
It did no such thing—but the result has become conventional wisdom nevertheless
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Could Fruit Flies Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Mind?
New understandings in neurobiology are emerging from experiments on Drosophila, raising hopes the tiny insect will aid insights into human cognition and dementia
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Long Live the Multiverse!
The idea that our universe is just part of a much vaster cosmos has a long history—and it’s still very much with us
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Courage versus Fear: Keeping Health Risks in Perspective When the Dramatic and Rare Goes Culturally Viral
It was a singular act of courage for Angelina Jolie to so openly reveal her fears and preventive double mastectomy. She just amazes, again and again.
Malawania from Iraq and the Cretaceous Ichthyosaur Revolution (part II)
Tet Zoo readers with supernatural memories will doubtless recall the January 2012 article ‘Rigid swimmer’ and the Cretaceous Ichthyosaur Revolution (part I) [link below]...
Welcome Overthinking It the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs
Connoisseurs of our Guest Blog are likely familiar with the name Kyle Hill, as he has written more than twenty posts there, several of which were big hits.
Congratulations to the winners of the ScienceSeeker Awards!
ScienceSeeker Awards have been announced earlier today. If you are not sure what this is, ScienceSeeker is the main portal for collecting, connecting and filtering science writing online, especially on science blogs (Note: it is a project of ScienceOnline of which I am one of the co-founders and co-chairmen)...
Fat Tuesday: Illusory Portion Control
Ed. note: this post appeared previously at Sleights of Mind. Think that your eyes are bigger than your stomach? Well, actually, yes... they are.The Portion Size Illusion is a new variant of an old classic illusion called the Ebbinghaus illusion, in which a circle surrounded by smaller circles looks bigger than the same circle surrounded by bigger circles...
The man without a center
Why are we drawn to tragic heroes much more then to conventional ones? Perhaps because tragic heroes, because of the flaws and ambiguity inherent in their nature, continue to intrigue us long after we have finished admiring the essentially simple and good character of conventional heroes...
May We All Have The Option of Double Mastectomy
Today, Angelina Jolie published an Op-Ed in the New York Times about her decision to get a double mastectomy (removal of breast tissue in both breasts) to reduce her risk of breast cancer...
Bell Labs Lead Researcher Discusses the Edge of the Internet [Video]
Future networks must push past current wireless bandwidth limitations
#DispatchesDNLee: Finally Trapping
It took longer to get,set up but I am finally trapping. That means I’m collecting data. Woo, hoo! Here is a peek into all of the fun I’ve had working hard in Tanzania!
Tomorrow Lab and the Beat of the Planets
“The planets have a beat,” said Dr. Oded Aharonson, snapping his fingers. Skyped in from Israel into a Manhattan boardroom on May 10, Aharonson is a scientist who has operated the rover on Mars...
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