Predator X

from New Scientist Real sea monsters: The hunt for predator X By James O’Donoghue (Image: Christian Darkin/Science Photo Library) EACH summer, a team from the University of Oslo in Norway go hunting for monsters on the island of Spitsbergen. They carry guns in...

Consciousness Matters

from The New York Times Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter. by Galen Strawson / THE STONE Credit Ullstein bild, via Getty Images  Every day, it seems, some verifiably intelligent person tells us that we don’t know what consciousness is. The nature of...

Franzen Upchuck

from The Observer Why I Almost Committed Suicide Watching Jonathan Franzen on Jeopardy A three-time Jeopardy champ nearly loses it seeing a slightly more famous writer at the game-show podium Neal Pollack I’m a Jeopardy! champion. I won three games in September of...