August 8, 2011
What a Rabid Skunk Taught Me about God's (Non)existence
Stories by John Horgan
John Horgan is a freelance journalist and a former Scientific American staff writer. He comments on science in his free online journal, Cross-Check, and he has also posted his self-published books Mind-Body Problems (2018) and My Quantum Experiment (2023) online. Horgan teaches science writing at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
The SciencesJuly 29, 2011
The "Slow Science" Movement Must Be Crushed!
The SciencesJuly 25, 2011
Musings Inspired by My Run-In with a Bear
HealthJuly 18, 2011
The Curse of Iatrogenesis: When "Cures" Make Us Sicker
Mind & BrainJuly 12, 2011
Are Antidepressants Just Placebos with Side Effects?
The SciencesJuly 5, 2011
In Defense of Wishful Thinking
EvolutionJune 24, 2011
Defending Stephen Jay Gould's Crusade against Biological Determinism
The SciencesJune 20, 2011
Cool Science Classics for Summer Reading, Part 2
The SciencesJune 14, 2011
Cool Science Classics for Summer Reading, Part 1
TechnologyJune 3, 2011
Don't Believe Scare Stories about Cyber War
The SciencesMay 30, 2011
Winning Argument: As a "New" Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful
The SciencesMay 23, 2011
The Genuine Articles: Why I'm Upbeat about Science Journalism's Future
May 16, 2011
Thin Body of Evidence: Why I Have Doubts about Gary Taubes's Why We Get Fat
May 9, 2011
Temperature Tantrum: James Hansen Speaks Out, Gets Busted, and Now Sues to Stop Global Warming
HealthMay 2, 2011
Have researchers really discovered any genes for behavior? Candidates welcome
HealthApril 26, 2011
Code rage: The "warrior gene" makes me mad! (Whether I have it or not)
Mind & BrainApril 18, 2011
Beware the military-psychological complex: A $125-million program to boost soldiers' "fitness" raises ethical questions
The SciencesApril 9, 2011
Prize in the sky: The Templeton Foundation rewards "spiritual progress," but what the heck is that?
EnvironmentApril 4, 2011
Overheated rhetoric: Why Bill McKibben's global-warming fear-mongering isn't helpful
TechnologyMarch 28, 2011
Poetic masterpiece of Claude Shannon, father of information theory, published for the first time
EnvironmentMarch 15, 2011
Averting a "Japan syndrome": Reactor expert says Japan's woes shouldn't stop a nuclear renaissance
The SciencesMarch 11, 2011
Japan earthquake demonstrates the limits—and power—of science
The SciencesMarch 7, 2011
Why information can't be the basis of reality
February 28, 2011
Pssst! Don't tell the creationists, but scientists don't have a clue how life began