My Stuff You Should Know podcast co-host Chuck Bryant, our producer Jeri Rowland and I aren't completely unaware of ourselves. As such, we do feel a bit uneasy toasting an effort that ultimately has to do with buying an ox to help plow a small, cold field or...

Back in 2009, a Dartmouth neuroscientist named Craig Bennett was fed up with the increasingly
strong dogma surrounding studies of the human experience that used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The public had grown to accept headlines that described the findings of recent studies: Men literally see...

Back in the 1970s, a guy named Jerry Fodor expounded an arcane concept called the computational theory of mind (CTM). Put very crudely, it says the mind creates consciousness through information processing using its own language and rules. The theory, which Fodor has since abandoned as incomplete and...

We've arrived at a point in human history where our health is assaulted like never before. The phthalates that soften our shower curtains and the bisphenols that shatterproof our water bottles are endocrine disruptors that, research is now showing, may lead to lower testosterone in boys and girls who can...