Yes, science is back! In Obama, we will have a President who appreciates the power of science to understand the world and fix the world, not merely to spy on the world or to blow up the world. That's the report from Think Progress: SCIENCE IS BACK: The choice of Chu, a…
Well, it's "Black Friday" again. It's time to check out the news. In their attempts to buy trinkets to celebrate the birth of Jesus, Wal-Mart shoppers broke through the stores's exterior doors and trampled a Wal-Mart employee, who died during the incident. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ObKm4w9igM[/youtube] Yes, there's lots of irony (and sadness)…
I've previously posted on the work of Mark Johnson and George Lakoff, who have argued that human thought is often metaphorical. Johnson and Lakoff have used numerous examples of our use of language to demonstrate that human cognition is often a metaphorical extension of sensorimotor experience. I've been collecting experimental…
Andrew Sullivan sums it up. Guantanamo has been an incredibly ghastly episode for America. If any other country had done half of what we have done, our government and media would have condemned its behavior nonstop from day one. Yet I constantly meet people who think that all of…
Do you want to celebrate the modern sanitized version of Thanksgiving, or do you want to make a little ruckus with some Thanksgiving straight talk around the dinner table? It's one of my unprovable articles of faith that one of the most valuable gifts I give others is to be…