Human nurture
"They [you-know-what], your mum and dad, they do not mean to but they do" having become probably the most common poetic epigraph of the late 20th century, it is pleasant to read a book which argues that this is not the case at all.
Worst of the brain teasers
With The Undiscovered Mind, Horgan returns to the consciousness debate to argue that even if there were cause to dream about a grand unified theory of consciousness, it is hard to see how the current mob of researchers could possibly deliver.
Aids – our gift to Africa?
Giles Foden asks if science really created the deadly virus that it now longs to cure The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS by Edward Hooper
Obituary: Dr. Sigmund Freud
Freud's attitude towards psychoanalysis cannot be understood until his two fundamental beliefs are appreciated. The first is that every event in the mind can be described and explained in mental terms; the other, loaded as it is with complex philosophical implications, can only be mentioned. It is that determinism applies as rigidly to the mind as to the body. For Freud the word chance had no meaning, except in the scientist's sense.