I thought I'd cross post this from The Great Beyond, which is a blog we recently started at Nature to complement our own news coverage. The blog rounds up the science stories that, for one reason or...

Earlier this year in Prospect, psychologist Judith Rich Harris previewed the BBC1 series Child of our Time, due to be broadcast in May. The article attracted quite a lot of coverage at the time,...

Heretic. Physicist Freeman Dyson offers some controversial thoughts on global warming and other issues (you'd think he'd been reading Steven Pinker). He also owns up to some bad advice he once gave...

Cyberman. William Gibson tells Salon why Second Life both is and isn't his vision of cyberspace, how Google has changed the way he works, and why no one knows what the hell is going to happen...

As has been widely reported in the papers over the last few days, Prospect contributor Charles (or CAR) Hills--who wrote a column about life in Clapham for us a few years ago, and has more recently...

How did you get here? It's easy enough for me to find out—I can just browse any one of a number of back-end blogging widgets we have installed to see, for instance, how many unique page views we're...

A few days ago, I noted on this blog that a poker match was taking place between two of the world's finest human players and Polaris, the most advanced poker-playing computer program yet devised. The...

Heavy mental. Joseph LeDoux is a neuroscientist at NYU (subscribers can read his Prospect article on the self and the brain here). He's also chief singer-songwriter of rock band The...

Albert Ellis, who in the 1950s founded cognitive therapy in the US, died yesterday at home in New York. He was 93. He gave his last interview to Jules Evans, whose portrait of Ellis in this month's...

Last week, to great fanfare in the world of Artificial Intelligence, it was announced that the game of checkers (better known as draughts in the UK) had been solved by the University of Alberta's...