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There are psychological explanations for why conspiracy theories are so seductive. Academics who study them argue that they meet a basic human need: to have the magnitude of any given effect be balanced by the magnitude of the cause behind it. A world in which tiny causes can have huge consequences feels scary and unreliable. Therefore a grand disaster like Sept. 11 needs a grand conspiracy behind it. "We tend to associate major events--a President or princess dying--with major causes," says Patrick Leman, a lecturer in psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, who has conducted studies...
...should be branded as disloyal or a traitor. This is not a debate about left vs. right, blue vs. red--it is a discussion that should transcend political divides because it is about shared values. We can disagree about tactics, but we need to find some consensus about our basic values and interests...
...high, and slipping their big men - like 6-10, 280-pound baby-Shaq center Sofoklis Schortsanitis - down low, where they were open for easy buckets (Schortsanitis finished with 14 points on 6 of 7 shooting). Without a single NBA player on their roster, the Greeks executed the most basic NBA-type play - the pick and roll - to near-perfection. So here's another one of those questions: Would a pro head coach - who sees the pick and roll in his sleep - have designed a better defense, or adjusted sooner...
...title promises the Pope AND Darwin, not the Pope VS. Darwin. Benedict XVI will indeed be hosting a scholarly powwow this weekend at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, to debate evolution and creation. But don't expect the Catholic Church to start disputing Darwin's basic findings, which Pope John Paul II in 1996 called "more than a hypothesis." Moreover, advocates of the teaching in U.S. schools of intelligent design - which holds that nature is so complex that it must be God's doing - should not count on any imminent Holy See document or papal pronouncement...
...eastern side of the school building, rather than inside in the western one, as should have been the case, he submits, if the official version of the explosions was correct. He also analyzed the nature of the explosions on the southern side of gym, and found that the basic explosion under the school gym window could not have been made by the terrorists' homemade device. In fact, he claims that none of the explosions within the first 22 seconds could have been made by the terrorists' weapons. "None of the official versions is supported by science," Savelyev insists. "They simply...