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President Obama recently returned from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and declared, "Today the American people can be proud because this historic agreement is a tribute to ...

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My prior post here identified a slew of ways in which psychological science has not lived up to its self-appointed claims as a "self-correcting" science. One could view that as me just being a ...

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Recollections can be vivid, as when Francis Crick looked back to a moment in February 1953: “Jerry Donohue and Jim Watson were by the blackboard and I was by my desk, and we suddenly thought, ‘Well, ...

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we manufacture a nightmarish future and refuse to heed the warnings so ...

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