The Lippard Blog

Todd Wood of the Center for Origins Research at Bryan College has gotten around to doing what I haven't done, updating my analysis of t...

The prominent skeptic Martin Gardner, mathematician, philosopher, magician, and writer, died today at the age of 95 (b. October 21, 1914, d....

Earlier today on Twitter, Adam Bourque (@A_Damn_Bourque) asked if anyone knew the origin of the term "woo" as applied to the paran...

On the last day of my class on Scientific Revolutions and the law, one of the students in the class, Lijing Jiang, gave a presentation title...

The work of ASU emeritus professor of psychology Robert Cialdini, author of the classic book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion , has ...

There’s a widespread recognition that public policy should be informed by both scientifically verifiable factual information and by social v...

Science fiction has been a popular genre at least since Jules Verne’s 19th century work, and arguably longer still. But can it have practica...

Being modern, argues Bruno Latour in We Have Never Been Modern (1993, Harvard Univ. Press), involves drawing a sharp distinction between “n...

Matthew LaClair, who exposed his proselytizing U.S. history teacher/youth pastor in 2006 , now hosts his own radio show, "Equal Time fo...

James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (about which I've blogged previously ) talks about how the state imposes standards in order to make f...