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Oct 25, 2008 — John Horgan & George Johnson
Jonathan Haidt’s moral psychology
Is Haidt just another biased liberal?
Is tolerance a self-undermining value?
Cataclysms of secular humanism
Sarah Palin’s socialism
A secret weapon only Bob Woodward knows about
Oct 18, 2008 — John Horgan & David Berreby
David’s latest book, “Us and Them”
How to engineer a culture
Beyond genetic determinism
Reality and illusion in racial concepts
McCain’s failure to exploit identity politics
Are some ideologies just better than others?
Oct 11, 2008 — John Horgan & George Johnson
Searching for catharsis in simulated violence
Is it time to stockpile guns and ammo yet?
Financial apocalypse as segue to new world order
Mysticism of the Nobel-winning concept of broken symmetry
The strange story behind the discovery of HIV
Big pharma vs. the fundies on human papillomavirus
Oct 4, 2008 — Jennifer Ouellette & Julianne Dalcanton
Julianne lays claim to a comet
The scientific sensibility infiltrates television
Woes and wonders of the Hubble Space Telescope
How astronauts prepare to go into space
Jennifer defends corpse museums
The right way to teach science to kids
Sep 27, 2008 — John Horgan & George Johnson
The exhilaration of catastrophe
How we got sucked into a financial black hole
George on the virtues of redundancy in a vital system
What Stephen Jay Gould has to do with the mess we’re in
How 9/11 tore John from his perceptual cocoon
Mandelbrot and the fractal nature of scientific discovery
Sep 20, 2008 — Sean Carroll & Jennifer Ouellette
The Higgs boson: molasses of the subatomic world
What the universe is made of
Cool stuff the LHC might find
Don’t worry! The LHC won’t make a world-swallowing black hole
Jennifer learns to love math
Sean’s theory of poker
Sep 13, 2008 — John Horgan & George Johnson
John murders a skunk…
…and learns all about rabies
The LHC fires up: time to mock theoretical physics?
George says the LHC is worth the money
The skunk as proof that evolution is ingenious
Why you should be reading Carl Zimmer right now
Sep 6, 2008 — John Horgan & Brian Ferguson
The origins of war: Brian updates Rousseau
Warfare among modern-day primitive societies
Is being a warrior a good way to spread your genes around?
The evidence for ancient war
Violent chimps and hippie bonobos
Why are Ashkenazi Jews smart?
Aug 30, 2008 — Carl Zimmer & Richard Preston
Richard’s latest book, “Panic in Level 4”
The mind of a self-cannibal
A nonfiction writer’s contract with the reader
The biomechanics of hammock sex revealed
One mathematician in two bodies
Emerging diseases: stormy weather ahead
Aug 23, 2008 — John Horgan & George Johnson
In defense of knowledge
The latest advances in cheating and drug abuse
Bigfoot temporarily discovered
John contends the US should abandon its bioweapon programs
Wind power’s reputation goes downhill
Assessing the chances for space-based solar power
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