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This weeks New Scientist has an interesting article by Keith Oatley of Toronto Uni. He and his colleagues have found that "reading fiction really does have psychological benefits". First, they tested ability to read emotions and social situations using tests like those used to assess autism...

Alas Poor Darwin: Steven/Hilary Rose (Eds) It's a collection of essays by various anti evolutionary psychology protagonists, and it is excruciatingly tedious. It took me five weeks to read 250 pages. Basically it's a load of politically motivated (by their own admission) whats-bad-is-false...

Has anyone read it? I've just been reading the review in New Scientist. The title says it all really, Havil takes a collection of counterintuitive ideas, and provides the mathematical proof that they're true. Apparently, one of the things he demonstrates is a wine glass with a finite surface...

When I try to post a message the forum throws an error, saying that I'm not logged in, even though the top right corner of the reply window is acknowledging that I am. If I then take up the invitation to log in again, a second attempt at posting the message is met with a complaint about posting...

Has anyone else read it?

Has anyone else read it?

Has anyone else read it?