1+ hour, 20+ min ago  (758+ words) Yesterday, we looked at an article on covert consciousness by associate editor Molly Mc Donough in the Spring/Summer edition of Harvard Medicine. It's the consciousness that people in a coma, who appear unresponsive, often show if researchers can communicate…...

21+ hour, 16+ min ago  (421+ words) In the Spring/Summer edition of Harvard Medicine, associate editor Molly Mc Donough offers an article on new findings about consciousness among the comatose. Doctors, she says, can be very surprised when patients who do not seem to respond are…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (475+ words) This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Some physicians" organizations have noticed the trend and are pushing back. A few months ago, an opinion article in the'Annals of Internal Medicine'argued that using the term…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (586+ words) Are people having less kids today because of financial woes? Are they avoiding childbearing out of an ideologically rooted fear of a future climate catastrophe? While those factors might have some say in the situation, a new study points to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (490+ words) This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Gallup just issued its annual poll on "moral acceptability." I was struck by the dramatically different results in the two questions about suicide. The first question asked…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (476+ words) Oxford philosopher Victoria Trumbull weighed in recently on mind'brain issues, arguing that memories cannot be "stored" in the brain. We are accustomed to using that expression but she asks us to consider what we really mean when we say that:…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (743+ words) Recently, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and I have been looking at the claims made in an article in Popular Mechanics in connection with our book, The Immortal Mind: (2025). The many misconceptions the PM article introduced have provided us with an opportunity…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (72+ words) Michael Egnor is being asked to speak in many venues as the result of the publication of his and Denyse O'Leary's 2025 book, The Immortal Mind. On the Ministry Now program at the Daystar Television Network: On a Spanish language program…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (901+ words) Bill Newsome, a neuroscientist of 40 years's standing who is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, told PM that there is a simple explanation: the two hemispheres are not really separated: "The corpus callosum is also not the only…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (728+ words) In April, Popular Mechanics ran an article pointing to The Immortal Mind: (2025), a book written by neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and myself. The book was targeted as "damaging." Specifically, It's damaging to go out there and say, "I'm a neurosurgeon, and…...