Was Thomas Kuhn Evil?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 23, 2019March 23, 2019 Film, Science

Click Here to Read: Was Thomas Kuhn Evil? Filmmaker Errol Morris, once Kuhn’s grad student, accuses him of being a bad philosopher and bad person by By John Horgan on the Scientific American website on March 19, 2019.

A Future Without Fossil Fuels

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: A Future Without Fossil Fuels? by Bill McKibben
in The New York Review of Books on April 4, 2019 Issue.

Solar panels, wind turbines, and an electricity pylon; unidentified location. Photo: hpgruesen. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down For 14 Generation

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2019March 11, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down For 14 Generations by Signe Dean on the Science Alert website on April 27, 2018.

The human DNA model takes on a double helix shape. Image: PublicDomainPictures

How AI Will Rewire Us

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 8, 2019March 8, 2019 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: How AI Will Rewire Us: For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship by Nicholas A. Christakis in the Atlantic Monthly in the April 2019 Issue. Robot Image Public Domian via Wikimedia Commons.

Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew U

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 7, 2019March 7, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Freud’s a fraud? 110 unpublished Einstein documents unveiled by Hebrew U: Released ahead of what would be physicist’s 140th birthday, trove includes 1935 letter expressing fear of war in Europe and appearing to dismiss Sigmund Freud as a ‘simple swindle’ By Michael Bachner On the Times of Israel website on March 6, 2019.

Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. Photo: Ferdinand Schmutzer (1870–1928) . Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The Purpose of Dreams

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: The Purpose of Dreams by Rose MacDowell on the Sleepolis website on February 28, 2019.

Graph showing the passage through the four principle phases of sleep over the course of a night. Portions marked in red indicate REM sleep. Image: Kernsters

Global Warming Could Strip Away Clouds, Suggests Controversial Study

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: Global Warming Could Strip Away Clouds, Suggests Controversial Study: Clear skies ahead — and that’s not a good thing By Yasmin Tayag on the Inverse website on February 26, 2019.

Cumulus clouds over Jamaica, as seen from an aircraft. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.