Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

We've been seduced by them, and horrified by them. Encouraged to tune out with them, and spurn them violently as instruments of the devi...

The most famous expressions of it are found in the world's great cities. But it's also scratched in caves and carved on rock walls. ...

Most place its origins on chemical imbalances, or poor nutrition, or heredity ... or even on bad karma from past lives. But with the new dis...

The faces of its perpetrators are hidden behind hoods and stockings. Its acts are captured on hand-held home video cameras in dank prisons o...

Trilogical science has been around for half a century. In that time, it's identified essential aspects of the human psyche. It's all...

They can be downright weird or totally logical. Recurring or one-off experiences. Most of them we dismiss the moment we wake from them. But ...

Almost a century ago we had a war to end all wars. But we could say we've had nothing but since! Millions dead. Homes torn apart. Artist...

Spending on medical technology is growing. Drug prescriptions are flying out of doctor's offices. Drug companies are throwing new drugs ...

He's widely considered one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time. A humbe civil servant, he rose from obscurity to change the ...

We spend our most formative years in it. The best years of our lives, they call it. And in these years, we ostensibly learn invaluable lesso...

Some say it comes from our social inequality. Others that greed and the lust for power are behind it. Still others say it's just our nat...

It is nurtured in the fevers of fanaticism. Fomented in books and newsletters and websites. We can defend it, or march out against it. We ca...

What do do when we're faced with so many obvious problems in society? Some resort to drugs and alcohol to block it out. Others become de...

Look all around you and you'll see the rapidly mounting evidence of a society in deep trouble. Lurking environmental disaster, a pending...

What is the relationship between looking out for yourself and looking out for others? How do you keep the balance? Or ... and this may be co...

Although scientists today are generally against any idea of a transcendental reality, it wasn't always like that. Pasteur said, "Th...

What’s in it for me? Looking out for #1. Blow your own horn. If you want a job done right, do it yourself. North American culture is full of...

Questions. We ask a lot of them in our lifetimes. From, "Why is the sky blue?" to "I wonder if Mary Jane likes me," to ...

They can be small, or enormous. They can have innocuous, even insignificant beginnings, but if untreated, become major headaches. Optimists ...

Used to be there were two possibilities: either you were telling the truth, or you were lying. But Freud introduced a third option: you thin...