Guest Thinkers — October 6, 2011

ALMA Telescope Shows First Pictures of Deep Space

The world’s most expensive and complex ground-based telescope Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has just offered its unique views of deep space, including images of two galaxies colliding, here:

Thinking

What is Mahāyāna Buddhism? A scholar of Buddhism explains

Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.

Debate world champion explains how to argue

Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.

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Thinking

Not believing is the second biggest “belief” in the U.S.

There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.

Thinking

Lobsters don’t die from old age — they die from exhaustion. Are they the key to immortality?

Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.

Neuropsych

The links between viruses and Alzheimer’s were dismissed for years – but evidence is building

An independent researcher looks into why there’s such strong opposition to her research.

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Beyond Columbus the Hero, the Slave Driver, or the Bumbling Idiot

In his new book, 1493, Charles Mann gives us a rich, nuanced account of how the Columbian Exchange continues to reunite the continents and globalize the world.