Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

New Site of Interest

I have added a new site to the “sites of interest” tag on the side. This site is devoted to Jarallah ‘Umar, the YSP politician who was assassinated in December 2002. There are a number of other sites that I have bookmarked on my computer, which I will be adding in the coming days as time and my writing schedule allows.

A woman with a blue lightning bolt in her face.

Neuropsych

The faulty weathermen of the mind

Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?

An artist's rendering of an alien planet and a red star.

13.8

New JWST results show we’re on a path to finding alien life

Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.

Business

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The Past

Here’s what it was like to live in ancient Rome

Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.

A man in a cowboy hat holding a chicken in a basket.

Health

Where’s the beef? Middle-aged, American men ate all of it

Just 12% of Americans account for half the country's total beef consumption.

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