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...

Devolution. The march of unreason continues, with Islamic creationism. I can hardly wait until the book reaches Britain. The story that wasn't. On a happier note, the ever-reliable Ben Goldacre...

I've just read an advance copy of Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams's Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, and it's been a stimulating experience (for those unblessed by review...

Back in the January 2007 issue of Prospect, Peter Shawn Taylor wrote about Canada's muscular foreign policy under its new conservative prime minister Stephen Harper. One example Taylor gave was...

Nothing symbolises the new willingness of Vladimir Putin's Russia to use energy as a political weapon so much as the incredible rise of its state-owned gas giant Gazprom over the last 18 months....

Prospect readers will already know all about our increasingly populous solar-system, thanks to Stephen Eales's account in the May issue of Pluto's demotion from proper planet to second-rate dwarf....