The Lippard Blog

Thanks to a tip from Tony Barnhart, I learned this morning of a talk at ASU today relevant to my last post ( "Imitation, isolation, and...

This post is going to be highly speculative, based on a few things that I've coincidentally just read over the last 24 hours and some pa...

Today I attended a lecture at ASU by Washington Post writer Joel Garreau, author of Edge Cities and Radical Evolution , about the future o...

Pierre Stromberg has an entertaining tale of his visit to a performance by former radio broadcaster, self-proclaimed cult expert, and exorci...

After at least two prior attempts in 2006 and 2008 , Mexico has decriminalized the personal possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocai...

From the Young Australian Skeptics : Inspired by the annual The Open Laboratory, the Skeptical Blog Anthology is a printed anthology of blog...

In Skeptoid #167, Brian Dunning argues that scientists should never engage in debate on pseudoscientific topics. His arguments include: It...

This blog is entering its fifth year today, and the content will be shifting a bit now that I am returning to school. Today was my first da...

ApostAZ podcast number 17 is out: Episode 017 Atheism and Voluntarily Free Thought in Phoenix! Go to meetup.com/phoenix-atheists for group...

This is the sixth and final part of my summary of TAM7, covering the last day's events on Sunday, July 11. Part 1 is here , part 2 is he...