decorabilia

You are going to die. Don't be scared. (Unless you are Shakespeare's greatest waffler .) There are two basic options, vis-à-vi...

Though it gets flippant when discussing the philosophical implications, Jesse Bering's piece is a nice (nice? not the right word at all)...

You aren't.  (And yet you are.) But you aren't.

Mars rover Spirit is gone for good? Probably . Chronic Fatigue Syndrome caused by a rodent virus?? Probably not. Government funds ri...

Yesterday's Science Carnival at The Evergreen State College brought a lot of science, and a little bit of carnival, to the public. The ...

The story first caught my attention in November . Now, in a humane and insightful piece, the NY Times magazine gives the incredible, philoso...

I. Earlier this year, I recommended Lawrence Rosenblum's See What I'm Saying , which explores the lesser-known aspects of sensatio...

On some level, it's obvious that happiness is genetic. Your ability to think and feel come from the brain you own (and that owns you), ...

Thoughts, we imagine, belong to us. Even when we share them (speaking, writing, smiling, Facebook-liking) or when others can divine them (ES...

1. Drink 2 cups of water before eating. "We are presenting results of the first randomized controlled intervention trial demonstrating...

Have you ever wanted to see a geoduck in action? Of course you have.

Longtime readers of the blog know that every now and then I feature the latest speculation about Toxoplasma gondii and its potential influe...

The University of Washington has a new research facility dedicated to cracking open the skulls of children and revealing the gooey knowledge...

How does the mind construct its perception of the passage of time? In some cases, in a nearly tangible way: a condition called time-space s...

Add this to the list of things that make humans exceptional: we are exceptionally bad at probability. Worse than pigeons, in fact.

To the list of things that don't actually keep you from getting sick--chugging vitamin C, downing homeopathic remedies, using Airborne, ...

More fun in the field of evolutionary robotics: In one experimental condition, the arena contained only large tokens, and the only way for ...

Learned a new word today: chemiosmosis. Before Mitchell, everyone assumed that cells got their energy using straightforward chemistry. The u...

Earlier this summer, a group of unrowdy atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and otherwise scientifically inclined skeptics descended upon Ken...

Boosting theories that life on Earth was seeded from interstellar bodies, the amino acid glycine has been isolated in comet leavings. Previ...