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Facebook sends more users to broadcast news sites, while Google News sends more to newspaper sites. 10,000 Words argues that news media shouldn’t wait to develop iPad apps, because the […]

I don’t know whether it was the impeachment effort against Georgia’s attorney general, or the arrest of the Hutaree militia terrorists, or the Army doctor who refuses to obey military […]

How much real science is there in James Cameron’s science fiction movie “Avatar”? Quite a bit, says MSNBC’s Charles Choi.

What can addiction teach us? Can its complexities ever be honestly represented in fiction? And is writing itself a kind of drug?

The other night I was watching ABC’s remake of “V” and wondering: What if the space-boot was on the other foot? What if we human beings were the “advanced” species, […]

More and more members have been leaving The Church of Scientology lately, claiming the organization hides the abuse it perpetrates against many of its non-celebrity members.

While “Avatar” remains science-fiction, the fundamental components behind the film’s escapades continue to progress and already have practical uses in medicine.

Sexually provocative, sexually suggestive and sexually reminiscent iPhone applications (apps) have been purged from the Apple store to reassure consumers of its wholesome image.

For generations, the topic of invisibility has been of great interest. Although it was once dismissed as science fiction, it has now become reality on a small scale. Physics textbooks around the […]

The press didn’t just do a lousy job of explaining the stakes during the healthcare debates, they failed us on a much more fundamental level. According to the Columbia Journalism […]

We were in the middle of a conversation around the table at a restaurant when our first year art student made a comment about her classes. “You might be a […]

The “Red Riding Trilogy2, a made-for-British-TV series, based on the novels of David Pearce, hits American theatres, offering viewers a five-hour marathon of violence and intrigue.

Philosopher BHL has an “existence” rather than existential problem after he made an epic gaffe by quoting a made-up philosopher in his latest book.

The New York Times is reportedly close to charging for its online content. It is considering a model similar to the Financial Times’ which sets a limit on the number […]

The “Art of Seduction” author moves beyond corny pick-up lines to offer practical seduction strategies, including one drawn from a fictional character who could “seduce a beetle if he needed to.”

n The proximity to, the ‘otherness’ of and the seemingly eternal conflict with the barbarian tribes across the Rhine stoked Imperial Rome’s interest in all matters German. To get a […]

What explains the universal human love of fiction, even horror fiction? Paul Bloom believes it’s an evolved preference that helped our ancestors survive a variety of real-world scenarios.

Jason Epstein thought of Amazon before Jeff Bezos. Or at least, he understood the concept: the necessity, and power, of making the world’s backlist available at all times. Epstein’s uniquely […]

They’d make an odd dinner party: The 12th century polymath Saint Hildegard of Bingen; James Doohan (aka Scotty from Star Trek); an American sociologist named James Cooke Brown; J.R.R. Tolkien; […]

John Edgar Wideman has always been one of my literary heroes, from the top of his prematurely bald head, a smooth brown dome towering six feet five inches into the […]

As overly “creative” memoirists continue to generate scandal, Robert Stone (“Prime Green”) isn’t surprised: writing about yourself, he says, is much like creating any other fictional character.

Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom loves investigating the things that make our minds uniquely human, from fiction and art to religion and morality. But where many scientists would be content […]

Having set box office records and basked in a seemingly never-ending haul of critical praise and awards, “Avatar “has become an unstoppable cultural force. So much so that it even […]

Paul Bloom has researched everything from religion and moral reasoning to children’s understanding of fiction and art. What’s the most unusual project he’s working on now?

We want to be “post-racial,” the media tells you, if you read the newspaper or watch TV. We want to “transcend race” is a phrase you have heard ever since […]

In a Hollywood that became increasingly politicized (some moviegoers would say “boring”) over the past five years, James Cameron is generally considered a-political. Among the all-time box office kings, the […]

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” —Oscar Wilde If I may borrow a word from this Oscar Wilde quote, I believe the Supreme […]

This spring in the sophomore-level course I teach on “Communication and Society,” we spent several weeks examining the many ways that individuals and groups are using the internet to alter […]

From sex to his great-aunt, Jonathan Ames’ oeuvre is laced with a variety of obsessions, including the desire to let books themselves shape our fates

When J.D. Salinger passed away recently, many casual fans who only remember him from tattered copies of The Catcher in the Rye lost long ago seemed shocked that he was […]