The approach of Thanksgiving, that quintessential American holiday, has me brooding once again over scientists’ slanderous portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes.
Posts published in “Scientific Curmudgeon”
Professor Horgan interviews the acclaimed scientist, Noam Chomsky.
Poet John Keats once said, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all/Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”
John Horgan explains an "antiwar movement" spreading among workers in the tech industry.
John Horgan describes the result of his 'caffeine habit' experiment.
I recently carried out an experiment involving my decades-long caffeine consumption. I have ingested caffeine, mostly in the form of coffee, since my twenties.
It is the central mystery of existence, the one toward which all other mysteries converge. The 17th-century French philosopher Descartes often gets credit for posing it first, but Socrates pondered it millennia earlier, as did Buddha and other Eastern sages.
Like many Americans, conservatives and liberals alike, I am appalled by reports about the treatment of children of alleged illegal immigrants.
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.