Denyse O'Leary
At a Science Journal: Humanity Is Just So Doomed
Opinions differ as to the details of what will wipe us all out — or maybe not
Study: Human brains differ more from chimps’ than once thought
Are chatbots starting to write literature?
Why Did Our Very Ancient Ancestors Collect Ball-Shaped Stones?
Over a million years ago, it seems that some of our ancestors hiked through valleys in East Africa, searching for volcanic spheres
Why don’t we remember being babies? Researchers challenge theory
How Our Expert Classes Have Torpedoed Public Trust
Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice
Can Christianity Just Abandon the Idea of the Soul?
Theologian Nancey Murphy thinks that the Christian tradition can do without the idea of a soul, by relying only on faith in a bodily resurrection
If the Tiniest Brain Is Far From Simple, How Did It Originate?
Eric Cassell’s account of the brain of the nematode worm C. elegans sparks a number of interesting questions
Abstract Reasoning in Human Ancestors: Earlier Than Thought?
Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
New Angel Studios documentary: Live Not by Lies
Should the Iconic Stanford Prison Experiment Study Be Retracted?
Within six months of the death of the famous sociologist who devised it, long-simmering questions have risen to the surface
NYT on COVID: Not “Badly Misled.” One of the Worst Misleaders!
The Times writer smears legitimate doubt by associating it with unnamed questionable persons and causes — that works if people don’t know the story
Researchers Ask: When Are Children Conscious Before Birth?
Human consciousness in general is acknowledged to be a Hard Problem and prenatal consciousness is a subset of that
NR editors decry the residential schools “mass graves” claims
Consciousness: Reductionism’s Final Hill — the One To Die On?
The reductionist has no more information than anyone else about the origin of human consciousness and isn’t making any better sense of the evidence we do have
When end-of-life lucidity struggles with delirium…
Stop Moaning About the ‘Mainstream Media’. You Are the Media Now
Social media have become much more important, relative to traditional news media and we are only beginning to grasp the profound implications
Clinical Psychologist Defends Human Exceptionalism
Gregg Henriques is responding to an evolutionary biologist who sees recognition of human uniqueness as “speciesism,” akin to racism and sexism