The Lippard Blog

Tony Barnhart was kind enough to invite me to a psychology seminar yesterday afternoon that was a discussion of mirror neurons, at least par...

The 18th episode of the ApostAZ podcast is available: Episode 018 Atheism and Free Twizzering in Phoenix! Go to meetup.com/phoenix-atheist...

The grassrootsskeptics.org website officially launches today: Philadelphia, PA – 9/4/2009: Grassroots Skeptics today announced the officia...

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...