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In the pre-modern world, circadian rhythms were synched with the rising and setting of the sun, but modern life requires many to adjust their internal clocks to accommodate alternative sleeping […]

For many with insomnia, their minds are like stereos at maximum volume with no off switch.

Sleep is hardly a period of inactivity for the brain. During a normal night’s sleep, the brain cycles through various stages including REM sleep, during which the brain is just […]

A conversation with the sleep psychologist.

Stern’s research uncovered a neural network in the brain that accounts for some people’s ability to function well despite a lack of sleep.

The iconic abnormal psych case of Phineas Gage provided scientists with the first hints that different functions like decision-making and language acquisition were grouped into localized areas within the brain.

Scheck thinks we should do away with judicial elections, and should do more to educate the judiciary about scientific evidence.

Eyewitness testimony is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, says Scheck. Psychologists and researchers have demonstrated a variety of ways that witnesses regularly misidentify suspects.

“Nothing guarantees the conviction of an innocent person more than a lawyer that is not adequately funded or not competent to do the job,” says Scheck.

Sometimes a prosecutor doesn’t want to admit that they’re wrong. Other times they don’t want to face the victim’s family after a conviction is overturned.

Barry Scheck says the Innocence Project has transformed the way that the criminal justice system looks at error.

Scheck’s group will take up the case of a convicted prisoner if there is the possibility that a DNA test—or multiple DNA tests—could prove them innocent.

A conversation with the attorney and founder of the Innocence Project.

Appel thinks it’s most important that children be born into families that want them. “My concern is for the potential gay child born into the bigoted family who mistreats that […]

Appel thinks the most pressing ethical issue of our time is “the arbitrary distinction that people have more or fewer rights because they were born on one side of the […]

Forcing people to make a doctor’s appointment in order to get medicine keeps some people from getting the care they need.

In objecting to all of these phenomena, people say they’re concerned about the welfare of the individuals. But they’re really just interested in imposing their own social or religious values […]

A person should have the right to end their own life, so long as they can prove that they are thinking rationally over a prolonged period of several days.

The bioethicist believes that life should be divined by cognizance, by sentience, and by the ability to interact with the world. Infants who can’t do that should have their lives […]

A conversation with the bioethicist.

“Most people don’t use C++ anywhere near as well as it could be used.”

Stroustrup shares some secrets about his work habits.

Stroustrup talks about exciting trends in technology and about how the efficiency of C++ is helping save the environment.

“Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.”

The future of programming is a language with a unified set of guidelines for how to combine different programming paradigms.

C should have been integrated as a subset of C++, says Stroustrup.

In the late 1970s, Stroustrup applied the idea of “classes” to the C programming language to create a new language that allows for high level abstraction—but is efficient and close […]

A conversation with the creator of C++.

Many of the brain’s functions are designed to initiate a response to a detected imbalance. As our bodies strive to maintain homeostasis, our brains send signals that make us do […]

Our main mode of control has to do with our degree of knowledge and our understanding of the world. As we change what we know about the world, we change […]