Entropy and equilibrium in an infinite universe.
Children's names and child abuse.
Does religion make people nicer?
More than sheep get sacrificed in France.
The Great Hoax and the methods of science.
New study explores why more women don't pursue careers in science and engineering.
Mathematician John Paulos evaluates the arguments for God.
In the beginning was the Singularity surrounding by nothingness, and then the Universal Cosmologist said "Singularity explode" and the Universe and latest creation myths were born.
"Social contagion" -- waves in the semantic environment.
Dr. Watson discovers political correctness is more important than freedom of speech.
Is there a homeopathic cure for legal terrorism?
Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize as British judge rules his documentary full of errors.
How can 92% of the world's leading doctors be wrong?
The Intelligent Design school of Biblical archaeology.
The new New Testament: Jesus the environmental activist.
Gentlemen, the problem is not religion, but the confusion of the orders of abstraction, which can afflict atheists too.
All food organic, no industrial pollution, vigorous exercise routine and a life expectancy of 30.
Michael Behe's Lehigh colleagues beg to differ.
How should scientists approach religion?
Facts minus context equals trivia.
We learn by building on our past knowledge and experiences .... aka by analogy.
The myths of the good old days.
Intelligent Design: The Faith that Dare not Speak Its Name.
Thirty years of the Selfish Gene.
The media bias toward the sensational.
A breast by any other name implies a totally different context.
John Kenneth Galbraith -- Stuart Chase sans General Semantics. The Da Vinci Code's pretentions to serious scholarship.
Contrary to the notion of scientism, generalized science methods ("consciousness of abstracting") can be applied to any area of life.
Humans tend to see what they believe.
Jesus and the cult of celebrity.
Intelligent Designers are like primitive tribes who view airplanes and ships for the first time and imagine gods.
The criminalization of free speech.
Art Buchwald reflects on his impending death.
Is sports fanaticism or Nazi fanaticism akin to religious 'metaphysical' experience?
Richard Dawkins on evolution and Intelligent Design.
Physicists freed from the shackles of experimental proof.
The search for a common morality.
When religion masquerades as science.
Turning unknown into unknowable.
Identification begins in childhood before language.
Sir Richard Doll was to cigarette smoking what Korzybski was to identification.
Your ticket to Creation Summer Camp.
A human-centered view of theories.
A modern message that hasn't got through to the masses.
The American Psychiatry Association responds to Tom Cruise.
Matt, Matt, you don't know the history of psychiatry. I do. Scientologist Tom Tom, antidepressants appear to stimulate neurogenesis.
The compound interest of human ingenuity.
Some see wine bottles, mathematicians see circles and polyhedra.
If you think you've found Absolute Truth, but others disagree, then can it be Absolute Truth or is it your relative truth that you label absolute?
Humans are different in that we cooperate with strangers.
Global warming spawns a new religion.
Function (dynamic structure) persists amid changing content.
What Rees does not appreciate is that science is a fusion of facts and assumptions. Einstein exposed and eliminated a false assumption.
The Trojan Horse of Intelligent Design.
Einstein, Cervantes and Korzybski -- they soared beyond their times and perhaps even ours.
Einstein broadened the perspectives of physics by rooting out some erroneous assumptions.
Killer earthquake -- another crack in the god facade. Humans come to the aid of their fellow humans. Apologists scramble to salvage their ancient anthropomorphisms.
And may all your Winter Soltices be white.
The Trojan Horse of Intelligent Design.
Peaceful coexistence and the obligation to convert.
The crusade against evolution.
What equation is more important than that for time-binding, PR^T?
From creation myths to science.
A home-study course in trash culture.
The non-additive response of Christopher Hitchens to 9-11.
Uptown girl in a downtown world.
Time-binding -- still largely an illusion in ethics and politics.
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
Turning the clock back 2000 years.
The times they are a changing.
Diversity without freedom of evaluation becomes mere conformity.
Daniel Dennett discovers multiordinality.
DDT and profiling -- victims of our two-valued orientation.
Islamic societies -- authoritarian, inflexible and underachieving.
Is physicist Greene the same as the light that reflects off his surface?
A neurophysiology of religious experience.
In search of Science and sanity in the Arab world.
The most accomplished person who ever lived? Aristotle. Murray's statistical methods miss Korzybski altogether.
Neurochemical pathways of social attachment.
The proof is in the pudding and other thoughtless uses of language.
From "most hated woman in America" to champion of diversity.
Dealing with the poor without creating dependency and stifling their work ethic.
The demise of slavery in the British Empire.
Evolution of medicine from treatment to prevention to enhancement.
Copyright or copyleft? Returning copyright laws to the Jeffersonian model.
The triumph of identity politics.
Robert Pula, 1928-2004. Bruce Kodish remembers.
An extensional analysis of "love."
Do ETC and the GS Bulletin need swimsuit issues?
You could cite Professor Greene's view of 'time' the next 'time' you miss your mortgage payment. Laughs and foreclosure will follow.
Word choices to soothe and deceive and their meanings evolve.
Richard Dawkins learns that international laws appropriate for 1945 do not address the issues of the 21st century.
Noam Chomsky -- smoke without mirrors.
The chasm that separates the mathematically literate from the mathematically impotent.
The Spanish Journal of Psychology commemorates 100 years of Pavlov's dogs.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Neil Postman, former editor of ETC, is dead at 72.
New Age scholars and their confusion of science as a local cultural tool with science as a general method of evaluation.
With language we can lie and create verbal paradoxes that are then confused with the non-verbal world.
Some search for the physical processes driving the evolution of life while others search for answers to word salads disguised as meaningful questions.
Science -- a democracy based on extensional methods.
Will the 21st century be noted merely for technological change, or will we also experience extensionalization in our standards of evaluation?
Abstracting and selective perception.
The emperor's new clothes and other tales of political correctness.
The ballad of Chicken Little -- what a little inflammatory rhetoric can do.
Richard Dawkins uses language to raise consciousness.
The limitations of local ways of knowing. Indigenous knowledge or local gossip?
Does Asian orthography curb creativity?
Science and engineering without risk.
Placebo effect -- a physio-psycho-logical (organism-as-a-whole) effect of any treatment, whether it be intrinsically worthwhile or worthless.
Five former child orphans sue the University of Iowa over an experiment conducted by Wendell Johnson in 1939.
The search for certainty in a world of probability.
Good intentions paved this road to hell.
The tunnel vision of dictators. The terror that keeps them in power restricts their view of reality.
The slippery slope of slippery slopes.
An eye for an eye put a limit on retribution.
Confessions of an expert witness.
The methods of science aren't foolproof, but they are indefinitely perfectible.
The deadly race to appear green.
The French resistance to forcing down the gates of hell.
Confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence that confirms our beliefs or decisions, and to ignore, dismiss, or forget evidence that is discrepant.
Seven warning signs of pseudoscience.
Merely reliving the past, without evaluating anew, reinforces the old reactions.
Fundamentalism and the confusion of the orders of abstraction.
How to care for your introvert.
Disabled -- overdefined by intension, underdefined by extension.
Aristotle may have called them "pathe," you may call them "affects" or "emotions" or "feelings," but for Korzybski they were only one aspect of our "semantic reactions."
Debates along the edge of the Third Culture.
A general semantic view of the nature-nuture debate.
Increased toleration is a characteristic of increased consciousness of abstracting.
The brakes are applied to another infinite velocity in physics.
The land that evolution forgot.
Do you use only 10% of your brain?
If your personal experiences have made you neurotic, you'll need psychiatric care when you read what happened to your ancestors.
Chimps R Us? Overevaluating by similarities, underevaluating by differences.
It's not merely what you say, but how you say it. (free registration)
Semantic factors in the ascent of the West and the decline of Islam.
More cracks in the foundations of physics: quantum hoax.
Semantics of black inner-city life.
The author confuses causality with predictability. Even seemingly random events have causes.
Extensionalization in the retroactive evaluation of human behavior.
The power of magnets to empty the wallets of those unconscious of abstracting.
The latest speculations on the fate of the universe.
Stephen Pinker deconstructs some myths about human nature.
Future wars may be fought with designer bugs.
Rote learning of disconnected facts.
Contrary to the Aristotelian law of non-contradiction, Hitler demonstrated one could be good and bad.
Composer searches for, but cannot find, absolute silence.
The afterlife of Marshall McLuhan.
Charlotte Schuchardt Read, Korzybski's assistant from 1939 to 1950 and former director of the Institute of General Semantics, died July 25, 2002 at age 92.
Surprise, Uncertainty and Mental Structures. Note the author uses the term "semantic" in the sense that Korzybski uses the term "verbal"; he uses "schemata" in the sense Korzybski uses the term "semantic."
Verbal flatulence in the structure of evolutionary theory.
Extending risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis to our daily activities.
The decline of racial politics.
Mom, someone changed the definitions.
Candor from a doctor's office.
The battle over Sigmund Freud.
Paul Kurtz won't talk with the dead. (free registration)
Fifteen arguments against creationism.
The inevitability of human cloning.
Stephen Jay Gould, 1941-2002, accidental creationist.
Unnatural selection or the confusion of the orders of abstraction in science.
The next revolution in science? Or does hype and secrecy have no disciplinary boundaries?
Doctors resist treatment based on probabilities and race.
Debating pseudoscience. (free registration)
How to tell the truth and other self-serving lies.
British mathematician claims to have solved Poincare's Conjecture about 3-dimensional space.
Karl Popper, champion of extensional methods in science.
How the search for truth gets corrupted by politics.
History as a politico-economic weapon.
The blood lust of identity reactions.
Abe Lincoln was a woman, and other reasons to be conscious of abstracting.
More intensional speculations about the origins of the universe,
Two kinds of medicine or two kinds of standards for medicine?
A traveller's guide to Heaven.
Can we survive the threat of dihydrogen monoxide?
As our knowledge grows, so does our fear of uncertainty.
Facts and fictions about evolutionary psychology.
Words and rules for combining words.
Consumerism and the search for meaning.
The Holy Bible gets a gender-lift.
Would a rose labelled an "onion" really smell as sweet?
A tale of political correctness (confusion of the orders of abstraction).
Paul Dirac, honorary poet laureate of modern physics.
The quest for a risk-free society.
A semantics of religion or blasphemy?
Fido barks again in the never-ending genes versus environment debate.
Sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter? The deadly semantics of getting laid.
In World War II Americans were encouraged to conserve; in the latest war Americans are encouraged to consume. The vicious cycle of commercialism in America.
The global climate: change is the norm.
The application of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to his role in the development of nuclear weapons for the Nazis.
The end of human evolution? Not if you realize that cultural evolution (time-binding) has superceded genetic evolution in humans.
The decline of the Muslim empire.
Despite political correctness (a confusion of the orders of abstraction), sane police work, like science, must be built on statistics and probability theory.
A critique of intelligent design theory.
When religious zeal met reality.
English -- the universal tongue.
It may be the thought that counts, but liquor is quicker.
Did a complex God evolve "by chance" or was He created by "intelligent design"?
Those who control our mass media control us.
Interstellar molecular hydrogen may bring an abrupt halt to the expanding universe.
Ernst Mayr reflects on the future of Darwinism.
The dislike of the dissimilar.
The cultivation of tolerance and self-criticism (aspects of consciousness of abstracting) sets the West apart from cultures armed for "jihad" against "infidels."
The continuing Christian fundamentalist jihad against evolution.
A creationist 'scientist' who openly professes the reversed order of evaluation.
If you don't succeed, play the blame game.
The evolution of altruism. (Free registration required)
The afterlife-obsessed suicidal brain really is a weapon of immense power and danger.
Terrorists' acts depend on an unwillingness to relate to their victims.
Falling prey to the notion of Mother Africa as a continent of indistinguishable black people.
Sex and physics, chaos and complexity.
Thomas Kuhn failed to see the human evaluational significance of science. (Free registration required.)
Modern cosmologists at work on their latest creation myths. Free registration required.
