Onyx Stone

I'm probably stating something most people already know but Fundamentalist Christianity suffers from a cognitive bias known as framing ,...

Why is there so much friction between people, cultures, races, nations? In the words of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, a homicidal maniac bent...

Wow... and you thought XP had problems... A ex-cop in the US recently ran into problems installing Vista and struggled to get his old progra...

If you have a distorted brain like mine, you've probably wondered about the angle on which the Milky Way cuts across the sky. It's j...

Which is the greater trait? Loyalty or honesty? It doesn't take most people too long to realise you can be loyal without being honest. Y...

Yep... there's a bit of a common theme running through the last few posts, the ease with which the mind can be fooled. Here's anothe...

The mind is a remarkable thing, perhaps more remarkable than we dare imagine. Take, for example, this image. Which way is it turning? Clockw...

Looking for some light reading? Then this book probably isn't for you. But, regardless, it is well worth adding to your collection. Mist...

It's silly I know, but it does make a point, life is how you see it... So how do you see it? Courage? Stupidity? Or a remarkable example...

The one, universal tenet of all religions, regardless of flavor, is they don't think. Could it be put any more eloquently than this... R...

Want to be part of genuine astronomical research? Now's your chance. Computer operated machines have photographed more than a million ...

On the train into work this morning I caught sight of a fellow passenger sharing indignation with the Sun newspaper. Mugger won £4m on lotte...

What does it take to succeed? If the trend of the last 20-30 years is to be believed, all you need is pretty little posters with nice positi...

At times the effectiveness of the security services has been called into question. Happily it's the terrorists incompetence causing the...