Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Music has the power to evoke a wide range of emotions. It can make us feel melancholy. Or it can fill us with hope. Music is often tangled up with memories and experiences, too. There's probably a ...

If you are glued to the Olympic coverage as I am, you are seeing the commercial from Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly's advertisement uses the scientific method as a narrative frame, drawing a par ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...