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Jan 3, 2009 — John Horgan & George Johnson
George’s beef with (some) science bloggers (cont’d)
Can science journalism survive in the digital age?
The death of privacy and the end of war
Will our mental hardware soon get an upgrade?
Is it time to abandon scientific materialism?
Human nature persists in face of iPods and other gadgetry
Dec 27, 2008 — Joshua Knobe & Elizabeth Spelke
Can a baby tell how many fingers you’re holding up?
Arithmetic sans parietal cortex: not as easy as it sounds
Counting from infancy to adulthood
Are humans born racists?
The value of knowing your psychologically built-in limitations
Dec 20, 2008 — John Horgan & George Johnson
George battles technology in Germany and Spain
John fondly remembers crashing a Navajo peyote ceremony
Mind-reading machine scans contents of the visual cortex
George defends science journalism from Abbie Smith
Are music and rhythm neurologically fundamental?
The brilliance of David Foster Wallace
Dec 13, 2008 — Eliezer Yudkowsky & Aubrey de Grey
The disease that will kill you if nothing else does
Is aging an evolutionary adaptation?
The nasty biological details of growing old
Wouldn’t it be awful if no one ever died?
Why are so few senior citizens excited about cryonics?
Eliezer confesses to being horrified by aging
Dec 6, 2008 — Abigail Smith & Ed Yong
Ed’s new book, “Not Exactly Rocket Science”
The nice thing about a hypercritical comments section
Why Ed left the laboratory but didn’t leave science
Ed and Abbie swap stories about becoming a science blogger
Abbie on the search for an HIV vaccine
A geek’s guide to vampire fiction
Nov 29, 2008 — John Horgan & George Johnson
Irony consumes the Horgan family Thanksgiving
The age of Roosevelt as viewed from the age of Obama
Do Wall Street bonuses work?
Doubting dark energy
Would robot killing machines be as cruel as human soldiers?
George explains how to be an atheist grateful for life
Nov 22, 2008 — Carl Zimmer & Tyler Volk
Tyler’s new book, “CO2 Rising”
Humanity as a supervolcano
The breathing of the biosphere
Does the solution to the climate crisis have to be fair?
Reasons for optimism about our planet’s woes
Long-term effects of CO2 pollution on the oceans and atmosphere
Nov 15, 2008 — Jennifer Ouellette & Chad Orzel
Chad traps atoms
In defense of doing science at a small college
Chad dances like a monkey, talks to his dog
Jennifer bridges the worlds of science and entertainment
The confused physics of Neal Stephenson’s “Anathem”
What’s wrong with bloggers selling out to the man?
Nov 8, 2008 — John Horgan & Michael Brooks
Michael’s new book, “13 Things That Don’t Make Sense”
Life as an anomaly
A message from our coming alien overlords
The young science of aging
What’s the point of sex?
John vs. Michael on the possibility of free will
Nov 1, 2008 — Eliezer Yudkowsky & Jaron Lanier
Are people machines? Can machines be people?
The point of trying to explain consciousness
Is there anything but quarks?
Jaron attacks the modern IQ test
Eliezer defends the “ideology” of AI research
Microsoft’s Clippy as pure expression of AI culture
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