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Are You Your Brain Or Your Body?
A “racing heart,” “choked up” - language treats emotion and thought as if they inhabit the body. But why are events of the mind felt in the heart or stomach?
News Account Mon, 08/31/2026 - 17:38 Categories NeuroscienceThe US Creating Starfleet Academy Sounds Exciting
He didn't call it a Moonshot or a Manhattan Project of Space, that is the kind of language his political opponents use(1), President Trump announcing a U.S. Space Academy invoked something even bolder - Star Trek.
Hank Campbell Mon, 08/31/2026 - 14:59 Categories AerospaceDog Aging Project: Humans and Dogs Age A Lot Alike
Metabolites associated with earlier or later death in dogs behave in much the same way they have been shown in humans.
News Account Mon, 08/31/2026 - 14:37 Categories Genetics & Molecular BiologyPeople Who Appropriate Oppression Are Harming Socialization By Their Kids
Actors are famous for manufacturing traumatic situations about every movie they've done but the public builds that into their psychological makeup. So do their kids, and not for the better. A new paper says appropriated oppression is a cultural legacy.
Hank Campbell Mon, 08/31/2026 - 14:08 Categories PsychologyTax Breaks, Not Subsidies, Spur Innovation
The world has spent $9,000,000,000,000 on alternatives to energy and has very little to show for it.
Hank Campbell Fri, 08/28/2026 - 10:57 Categories Science Education & PolicyAI Breakthroughs And An 11% Surge In Math Majors
University admissions data show an 11% increase in applications to study maths in college. The reason is that young people see AI as being the biggest boost to the field since the calculator
The Conversation Thu, 08/27/2026 - 14:56 Categories MathematicsNavigating Vaccine Guidance
During the Obama administration, he was concerned about vaccines causing autism and it showed when it came to guidance about swine flu vaccines. His administration banned multi-use vials because of his party's insistence that preservatives caused the disorder.
Hank Campbell Tue, 08/25/2026 - 13:56 Categories PsychologyTariffs Have Been Good For U.S. Whiskey Drinkers
Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen but if you are going to roll the dice with cancer, tariffs have made it more affordable. In 2018, the Trump administration began to place retaliatory tariffs on countries that had been penalizing American producers for decades.
Hank Campbell Thu, 08/20/2026 - 18:52 Categories Public HealthFasting Linked To Faster Disease Accumulation
Intermittent fasting, and fasting in general, has been a popular fad health gimmick, but the science isn't on its side. Instead, proponents believe mice are little people so if mice weaned on starvation diets lived longer, people would also.
News Account Thu, 08/20/2026 - 13:27 Categories Public HealthYour Brain Is Still Analog
The world around us may be digital, 0s and 1s shaping information, but the delivery mechanism is still analog; electricity and wires. Our brains, including cognition and consciousness, are also.
Hank Campbell Thu, 08/20/2026 - 09:19 Categories NeuroscienceWith Hannah McElhinney's 'Wormhole', Alternative Medicine Risk Gets A Spotlight
A book that criticizes alternative medicine to treat conditions that have names but no criteria is controversial - because it runs up against a supplement and alternative medicine enabled by governments that believe science can't be trusted
The Conversation Wed, 08/19/2026 - 16:59 Categories Random ThoughtsIs Climate Doom Discouraging Action? Here's How To Identify It
People see climate doom claims as manipulative but inoculation improves people’s ability to discern climate doom from climate science.
The Conversation Tue, 08/18/2026 - 10:13 Categories Science Education & PolicyHalloween Science Is Now In Its 2nd Edition
Halloween is the most rumor-prone of holidays. If you read the folklore that passes as social media, Halloween has its own holiday character, like Santa, but he's named Secret Sadist and putting razor blades in candy bars. Or LSD in...candy bars again.
Hank Campbell Mon, 08/17/2026 - 19:18 Categories Random ThoughtsAntonio Rosino, a Life for Chess
It is with quite a bit of sadness that I received this evening the news of the passing of Antonio Rosino.
Tommaso Dorigo Mon, 08/17/2026 - 15:22 Categories CultureCan Fully Electric Homes Be Affordable And Efficient?
A heat pump gathers warmth from the outside for the winter. It can cool your home also. The reason more people don't use them is cost; in Europe it can be 10X the price of a natural gas boiler. Here's what needs to happen for all-electric to be viable.
The Conversation Fri, 08/14/2026 - 20:18 Categories Applied PhysicsLord Lytton, Psychological Genius
Elites say his work is cliché but that only happens when everyone quotes you. His psychological insights also deserve a modern rethink.
Hank Campbell Wed, 08/12/2026 - 15:41 Categories Random ThoughtsNathan Straus: How Macy’s Jewish Magnate Helped The Poor With Science
Wealthy elites giving out $500 solar-powered juice presses are the problem with modern virtue-signaling masquerading as philanthropy. Nathan Straus was far more beneficial.
The Conversation Tue, 08/11/2026 - 18:01 Categories Science & SocietyMajor Genetic Weakness For Hybrid Breeding Revealed
Legacy hybrid corn breeding may be about to hit a crippling genetic roadblock.
News Account Tue, 08/11/2026 - 11:10 Categories Genetics & Molecular BiologyFrom Inspiration to Impact: 10 Years of Research on AI for Physics
A graph tells a thousand words - in this one, I present a summary of my past 10 years of research, trying to exploit the new AI technologies to improve the way we do research in fundamental science.
Tommaso Dorigo Tue, 08/11/2026 - 07:05 Categories PhysicsMath Is Just The Tip Of The Generative AI Iceberg
A little over a week ago, artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced ten advances in mathematics and computer science made with their as-yet unreleased model Astra. The discoveries cover a wide range of mathematical fields, including geometry, cryptography and coding theory.
The Conversation Sun, 08/09/2026 - 20:54 Categories Mathematics