19 Jul 12 | Steven Taylor, Reality Sandwich
You may have had one or more spontaneous lucid dreams, but if you want to be able to have them more frequently, and more robustly, then you will need to work at it.

5 Jul 12 | Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist
Meditation increases our ability to tap into the hidden recesses of our brain that are usually outside the reach of our conscious awareness.

27 Jun 12 | Interview: Jeffery Pritchett, Examiner
Discover the self-organizing consciousness that underlies everything in this talk with Gregory Sams, the author of Sun of gOd.

17 Jun 12 | Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist
Who says time has to flow forwards? The Yupno people have a mental timeline that breaks all the rules – it’s not straight, and flows uphill.

13 Jun 12 | Elsevier
Importantly, and for the first time in a group of patients with bipolar depression, a study also found that ketamine significantly reduced suicidal thoughts. These effects also occurred within one hour.

9 Jun 12 | Natalie Angier, New York Times
Elizabeth S. Spelke studies infants and toddlers to understand how the brain works by determining what, if anything, humans are born knowing.

1 Jun 12 | Matt Kaplan, Nature
Allowing the mind to wander aids creativity.

26 May 12 | Edge
The self is something that is central to a lot of psychological questions and, in fact, a lot of psychologists have difficulty describing their work without positing the notion of a self. A conversation with British experimental psychologist Bruce Hood.

17 May 12 | Trevor Smith, Reality Sandwich
A talk with Tony Wright, author of Left In The Dark, which presents his research outlining a radical re-interpretation of the current data regarding human evolution and our recent degenerated state we call “civilization”.

5 May 12 | Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist
Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein famously did not believe in a supernatural God, and neither do some scientists today. It now appears there may be a good reason for this.

29 Mar 12 | Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley
People often wonder if computers make children smarter. Scientists at the UC Berkeley are asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter? And the answer appears to be ‘yes.’

21 Feb 12 | Geoff Watts, BBC
Why do some people never get depressed?

13 Feb 12 | Bruce Headlam, New York Times
At 13, an age when most boys want to learn the guitar, Gary Marcus, decided he wanted to be a scientist. Twenty-five years later he had become a renowned cognitive psychologist. Then he wanted to play the guitar.

27 Jan 12 | Peter Meyer, Reality Sandwich
Physicalism claims that physical reality is all of reality, but this ‘scientific’ view of the world cannot explain consciousness and can be refuted by a simple psychedelic experiment.

11 Jan 12 | Scott Barry Kaufman and Jerry L. Singer, Scientific American
Once accused of being absent-minded, William James, quipped that he was really just present-minded to his own thoughts. He didn’t just live in his own head, but he also coined the term “stream of thought” in 1890.

Let’s see how many pan-psychic emergent dualists there are lurking in Asia, shall we? 9 Apr 11

People pragmatically intuit that regardless of whether free will exists, our society depends on everyone’s believing it does. 1 Apr 11

Skeptics often cite limiting factors that could stop an intelligence explosion from happening. An explanation, why these bottlenecks are unlikely to be significant issues, and thus why an intelligence explosion is a very likely outcome. 21 Mar 11

Many of Buddhism’s core tenets overlap with findings from modern neurology and neuroscience. So how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right? The answer may be Buddhism’s embrace of impermanence. 17 Mar 11

Ben Goertzel interviews Chinese Zen Buddhist and Artificial Intelligence researcher Zhou Changle, dean of Cognitive Science at Xiamen University, province of Fujian. 1 Mar 11