Beware Psychotherapy That Works Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds. Steve Salerno 8 Aug 2023 · 11 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland When should we allow a person to hasten her own death? Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin 7 Aug 2023 · 24 min read
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become. Robin Hanson 6 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film. Robert Zubrin 1 Aug 2023 · 9 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear. Lea Booth 7 Jul 2023 · 7 min read
Animal Liberation Later Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case. Matt Johnson 30 Jun 2023 · 12 min read
What Lies Beneath In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises. Sean Welsh 23 Jun 2023 · 13 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract How dissent is policed in social science. Jukka Savolainen 18 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
Aliens...Again! This time, they always say, it could be different. Michael Shermer 8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
A Declaration of Decadence Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress. Robert Zubrin 30 May 2023 · 6 min read
AI: Let’s Worry About the Right Things There are valid concerns and there are unfounded fears. Let us separate the two. Brendan Craig 12 May 2023 · 13 min read
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific. Lawrence M. Krauss 5 May 2023 · 5 min read
ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent. Frederick R. Prete 1 May 2023 · 10 min read
The Horseless Comanche The new world of AI promises great peril but also great potential. Aidan Harte 20 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
How Do We Define ‘Life’? An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.' Lawrence M. Krauss 17 Apr 2023 · 5 min read