
Five Fallacies of Grief: Debunking Psychological Stages
From the stages of grief to the stages of moral development, stage theories have little evidentiary support
From the stages of grief to the stages of moral development, stage theories have little evidentiary support
Part two of a series of articles on the neuroscience of chance
Part one of a series of articles on the neuroscience of chance
Why subjective anecdotes often trump objective data
Can emergence break the spell of reductionism and put spirituality back into nature?
A film challenging evolution by game show host and financial analyst Ben Stein is a case study in antiscience propaganda
Metaphors, modules and brain-scan pseudoscience
Emotions are as much a product of our evolutionary heritage as they are our environmental circumstances
Belief, disbelief and uncertainty generate different neural pathways in the brain
Evolutionary economics explains why irrational financial choices were once rational
Evolution and economics are both examples of a larger mysterious phenomenon
Journal article explanations of how science works often differ from the actual process
How the curious science of the oddities of everyday life yields new insights
To be of true service to humanity, science must be an exquisite blend of data, theory and narrative
An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens
The inverse square law trumps the law of attraction
Self-deception proves itself to be more powerful than deception
The neuroscience of choice exposes the power of ideas
The new science of happiness needs some historical perspective
Or why we should learn to stop worrying and love food
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