How to Recognize and Avoid Common Thinking Traps

Mounting Evidence Suggests Coronavirus Is Airborne–but Health Advice Has Not Caught Up

Share this on WhatsApp In Lidia Morawska’s home city of Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, roadside signs broadcast a simple message: ‘Wash hands, save lives.’ She has no problem with that: “Hand washing is always a good measure,” says the aerosol scientist, who works at the Queensland University of Technology. But the sign might be […]

Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread

Share this on WhatsApp Globe-trotting humans were the culprits  Credit: Martin Krzywinski Advertisement The world struggled to understand how COVID-19 spread during the pandemic’s first four months, but genetic sequences of the coronavirus reported by laboratories tell the real story—when the virus arrived in each place and where it came from. The sequences, which advance […]

How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?

Share this on WhatsApp It is a central dilemma of human life—more urgent, arguably, than the inevitability of suffering and death. I have been brooding and ranting to my students about it for years. It surely troubles us more than ever during this plague-ridden era. Philosophers call it the problem of other minds. I prefer […]