Every year John Brockman of Edge.org poses a question to a diverse group of thinkers and publishes their responses. This year’s question relates to the fact that some technologies or discoveries have changed our lives drastically in the past, and asks people to think about what big development they expect to see in their lifetime [...]
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The Edge question for 2009
New Scientist is looking for participants in a study on personalities and facial characteristics. All you have to do is answer a few questions and mail a photo of yourself to the magazine. Photos will be merged to form composites that will appear on the cover of the magazine at some point in the future. [...]
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Face/personality study
Well, that’s a good question, subject to considerable debate. This paper in PLoS One reports on some research that evaluates two factors in the extinction of the Neanderthals: an inability to adapt to climate change, and competition with anatomically modern humans. The work involved integrating multiple data sets to estimate the ecological niches occupied [...]
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What really happened to the Neanderthals?
Spirituality is complicated, an experience with many facets. The current model of spiritual experience in the brain involves multiple brain areas, reflecting that complexity, and has recently received a bit more experimental support. Earlier research has suggested that the temporal and parietal lobes of the brain may play complementary roles in certain kinds of religious [...]
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Localizing spiritual experiences in the brain
The relationship between science and religion can be hard to pin down. Are they complementary approaches to different aspects of the unknown, or different ways of approaching the same questions, and thus destined to be at loggerheads, competing for the hearts and minds of humans? A new study suggests that thinking of life’s bigger questions [...]
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Science and religion: Zero-sum game?
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