5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (715+ words) A conversation with neuroscientist and author Antonio Damasio about intelligence, feelings, and robots 11:00 AM CDT on September 9, 2026 Has your account of consciousness—how it arises and what it is—changed since 2022, when we last spoke? This was right after you…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (760+ words) Songs are closely linked to narrative and language 11:00 AM CDT on September 2, 2026 Picture a forest setting, dappled light. In this forest lives a family of small cartoon foxes. In the distance, a piccolo begins its bright tune, prompting the foxes…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (822+ words) Genetics and stress can combine in ways we don’t yet fully understand 11:00 AM CDT on September 1, 2026 Consuelo Walss-Bass has just published a book that tells her family’s story in intimate detail, and also attempts to demystify the current science of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (396+ words) Cooperation is a double-edged sword 3:30 PM CDT on August 26, 2026 Cooperation is the bedrock of civilization, but how it emerged from the seemingly selfish evolutionary regime of “survival of the fittest” is something of a puzzle. After all, helping someone comes…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (343+ words) The singer/songwriter leaves a scientific legacy more should aspire to 12:32 PM CDT on August 26, 2026 When geneticists from the University of Edinburgh successfully cloned the first mammal, they named it Dolly, after the now departed singer/songwriter Dolly Parton. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (777+ words) A conversation about the science of conversation with neuroscientist and author Shane O’Mara 3:00 PM CDT on August 25, 2026 One important result of this memory loss was that Henry could no longer participate in that magical communion that happens when humans come…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (220+ words) How interacting with social chatbots could reduce your “personhood” 3:00 PM CDT on August 21, 2026 “The risk is not that people will mistake bots for humans, and not that anyone is turning into a robot,” writes study author Inci Toral-Manson, professor of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (902+ words) Eugenics is rearing its ugly head again in today’s crucible of politics and culture 7:00 AM CDT on August 20, 2026 The pseudoscience of eugenics, founded on the mistaken notion that nature envisions some “right” combination of genes, and that selective breeding can…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (356+ words) Is it as easy as “mind over matter?” 3:00 PM CDT on August 18, 2026 Maintaining an active social life as we get older is an important part of healthy aging. Now, two new studies suggest that our perceptions of how we age…...