Category: Science

January 23, 2012

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars Reviewed in Publishers Weekly

“Careful descriptions of the methods and models behind climate change science bear out that assertion, proving that the only way to counter dangerous lies is to expose the truth, however inconvenient it might be.”—Publishers Weekly review of The Hockey Stick...

January 18, 2012

Michael Mann, author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" on Up With Chris Hayes

Michael E. Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, was recently on Up With Chris Hayes to discuss climate warming and its deniers. Michael E. Mann suggests that what we...

December 14, 2011

Michael Mann — A Look Into Our Climate: Past To Present To Future

The following video features Michael Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick: Dispatches from the Front Lines. In the talk given at a TEDx event, Mann explains the scientific data pointing to global warming.

December 9, 2011

Neurogastronomy: Aging, Flavor, and Taste

We conclude our week-long feature on Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, by Gordon Shepherd fittingly enough with an excerpt from the final chapter. In the chapter, “Why Flavor Matters,” Shepherd discusses how perceptions of flavor...

December 8, 2011

Neurogastronomy: Language and Flavor

One of the facets of the brain and food that Gordon Shepherd links in Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters is the role of language. Below is an excerpt from the book on this subject. (For...

December 7, 2011

How Neurogastronomy Can Fight Obesity and Fast-Food Cravings

Gordon Shepherd, author of Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, recently talked with The Chronicle of Higher Education about his book. In the article Shepherd discusses the science behind neurogastronomy and the ways in which we...

December 6, 2011

Neurogastronomy: Gordon Shepherd Discusses "Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters"

Gordon Shepherd, author of Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, was recently interviewed in Salon. In the interview, Gordon Shepherd explains among other things why we overeat, how to do the nose-pinch test, how to get...

December 4, 2011

Neurogastronomy and Why Smell Matters for the Food We Love

“Rather than being weak and vestigial, human smell appears to be quite powerful. Some have even suggested that humans and their primate relatives are “supersmellers” among ani­mals. It is time, therefore, for a new appreciation of this much maligned and...

December 2, 2011

Alan Wallace: "A True Revolution in the Mind Science"

We conclude our week’s feature on B. Alan Wallace’s Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, with an excerpt from his epilogue in which he discusses the potential for a true revolution in...

November 30, 2011

Alan Wallace on science, Buddhism, skepticism, and meditation

In this video Alan Wallace, most recently the author of Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, discusses science, Buddhism, skepticism, and meditation.

November 28, 2011

B. Alan Wallace: Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic

This week’s featured book is Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, by Alan Wallace. The following is the conclusion to the book’s opening chapter, Toward a Revolution in the Mind Sciences: Galileo,...

November 16, 2011

James Powell: Science Denialism Is Not Free, Part III

This is the third and final installment of James Powell’s series of blog posts. (To read the first and second). James Powell is the author of The Inquisition of Climate Science. “Science denial and pseudoscience are not free. We embrace...