Mind Readers
Will brain scans betray our guilt or explain spiritual revelations? Why the upswing in bipolar disease? Can you parse a visual grammar, or read a lover’s mind from long-distance?
International Herald Tribune
India’s use of brain scans in courts dismays: Orweillian mind-purge or the latest in forensic science?
New York Times Magazine
The Bipolar Puzzle: With diagnosis of this disease on the rise, chances are good that you know someone who is afflicted.
VizThink
Visual language vs. visual communication: As the internet embraces non-textual communications to take advantage of our varying modalities, we are confronted with concepts such as visual grammar. Here are a series of podcasts to explain the differences between communication and language.
The Clarion Review
Comfort, a poem: Reading a lover’s mind over a long-distance connection.
Science & Spirit
Flesh Made Soul: Can a new theory in neuroscience explain spiritual experience to a nonbeliever?
Thar she blows!
Take cover, we’re in for a real blast.
Huffington Post
Greenspan: This Is The Worst Economy I’ve Ever Seen: Our much-maligned former financial wizard is worried.
The Hindu
India contests Bush’s stand on fuel supply: President Bush and the government of India are at odds over an American committment to supply them with nuclear fuels. Is the 123 Agreement legally binding? The US says no.
GOOD Wanderlust
The Voyage of the Pequod from Moby Dick: Set sail and follow the route of that elusive white whale on an interactive map.
New Zealand Herald
Whale of a plan to challenge Japan: Japan says its whale-killing program provides us with scientific information about those gentle giants. Australia and New Zealand have come up with a way to provide the science without the killing.
