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No is no, yes is no
Debbie Wang • January 21, 2011
How can our conceptions of sexual consent be more nuanced? Read More
Watch out, I’mma censor you foo’
Shaina Agbayani • January 20, 2011
Political correctness, protest, and the Kay family Read More
How’s your head?
Adrian Kaats • January 10, 2011
Mental illness is more common than you think, and there’s nothing wrong with it Read More
Superstitious for success
Ben Makuch • January 5, 2011
The idiosyncratic rituals of athletes Read More
I believe in connections
Adrian Kaats • December 1, 2010
Many moons ago, a budding understanding of science led me to turf the ideas of an omnipotent and omniscient deity. I would likely have had a different, and perhaps more pleasant life, had I turfed science, but there’s an elegance, an immediacy, and a rationale to the sciences that have always suited my temperament, and so here I am, godless. Age, however, erodes everything, and that has included my belief in my own faithlessness. I’ve had a number of opportunities to discover just how full of faith I am. Particularly, I’ve found it necessary to try to describe that feeling of connectedness and purpose that, from time to time, arises apparently from nowhere, perhaps that place some call “soul.” A life of scientific study has led me to believe that although I can’t write you a system of equations to describe it, this feeling of connectedness is an emergent property of the interactions of various actors and forces in the highly complex, dynamical system we belong to, and which science seeks to describe. Simultaneously, my activities in industry, academia, and politics have all led me to understand that one cannot have blind faith in science, regardless of what it purports, since it’s produced by people. Not only are people subject to a number of corrosive influences which taint our products, “to err is human,” and those errors appear everywhere. Read More
Keeping the faith
Nader Fotouhi • November 29, 2010
For many, sports are a religious experience Read More
Partial credibility
Nader Fotouhi • November 22, 2010
Emails raise doubt about the NHL's chief discpliniarian Read More
Managers clogging health care’s arteries
Adrian Kaats • November 22, 2010
The proliferation of administrative staff in social services is causing unnecessary waste Read More
Deer factor
Ben Makuch • November 15, 2010
Ben Makuch challenges the perception of hunting as a blood sport Read More
Apple, Ikea, Motorola…
Adrian Kaats • November 15, 2010
The nefarious side of certain technologies Read More
The NHL’s failure in the South
Nader Fotouhi • November 11, 2010
Marketing democracy
Adrian Kaats • November 8, 2010
Social media encourage perilous illiteracy and innumeracy Read More
More money, more problems
Ben Makuch • November 1, 2010
Ben Makuch examines how fame, glamour, and money affect young professional athletes Read More