Like many Americans, conservatives and liberals alike, I am appalled by reports about the treatment of children of alleged illegal immigrants.
Posts published by “John Horgan”
John Horgan asks, "Does anyone who follows physics doubt it is in trouble?"
Can a war that kills the innocent be just? John Horgan explores the morality or war, killing, and the role of Google.
What's the point of humanities? More specifically, what's the point of STEM students taking humanities?
In response to my last column, “Is Science Hitting a Wall?,” a reader sent me “Diagnosing the decline in pharmaceutical R&D efficiency,” published in Nature Reviews in 2012.
I just read a paper that has me brooding, once again, over science’s limits. In “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
It’s hard maintaining an optimistic outlook these days, especially about the environment. U.S. officials are rolling back regulations designed to curb global warming even as reports flood in about its scale and potential consequences.
My friend Robert Wright recently gave a terrific talk here at Stevens about his bestseller Why Buddhism Is True. He argues that Buddhism has correctly diagnosed humanity’s problem.
I’ve been writing for decades about the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. And yet, only recently have I realized that few people outside philosophy and mind-related scientific fields are familiar with the phrase “mind-body problem.”
In 1990, on assignment for Scientific American, I had a close encounter with Stephen Hawking, who just died at the age of 76.