Robby Berman
Contributing Writer
I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
Economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin says that sharing online and on-grid spells the death of capitalism and the birth of a worldwide neural net.
Languages the world over have words for love we all seem to understand.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains why understanding new theories in physics is so hard, and why it’s so much fun.
The science behind tickling and why such an unpleasant experience makes us laugh.
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene discusses how we may not be able to see other dimensions.
A synchrotron has just unlocked the writing inside ancient Herculaneum’s incinerated scrolls.
When the news media don’t do their job, comedians step in to ask the tough questions.
Dan Pink explains how to use a couple of questions to help another person persuade themselves that you’re right.
Slavoj Žižek considers the pursuit of happiness to be dumb because we don’t really want it anyway.
The conflict between faiths is one good reason to doubt God’s existence.
Henry Rollins talks about how fear of winding up starting in The America drove his to his remarkable career.
Michio Kaku tells the story of one super-scary mistake in physics and reminds us how hard it is to get science right.
Many of our best U.S presidents qualify as psychopaths, while Hitler doesn’t.
Richard Gleick talks about one vital trait geniuses all seem to share.
Ricky Gervais explains how he stopped believing in God and how to be Christian without God or religion.
Michio Kaku suggests that we lack to evolutionary pressure these days to keep evolving in any significant way.
Penn Jillette explains how it’s more respectful to argue than just let anyone believe anything.
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what’s so completely mind-blowing about the great mind of Sir Isaac Newton.
Bill Nye explains the ways in which creationism hurts kids by making scientific inquiry impossible.
Mongolia becomes the world’s first country to switch to the what3words system of addresses.
Researchers present what they’ve learned now that they can read the tiny text inside the Antikythera mechanism.
United Egg Producers agree to eliminate male chick culling by switching to in-ovo terminations.
Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.
Physicists confirm the presence of a second layer if information in DNA that determines how it folds and what kind of cells it creates.
The FAA has issued a mysterious advisory telling pilots not to trust their GPS for several days this June.
Two new particles, one maybe seen and one theoretical, have the physics community buzzing.
The value and morality of zoos is being questioned after the tragic shooting of a gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo.
Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit is a classic freedom of the press case dressed up as a soap opera.
The key to breaking a lateness habit is patient brain retraining.
Neurotechnology pioneers envision an expanded future for humanity straight out of science fiction.