Once again with feeling..."Faster than the speed of light!"
Every once in a while, new research comes along claiming that scientists have found something that moves "faster than the speed of light!" And then, a while later, an error in the research turned up or something that showed that, "nope, nothing yet discovered moves faster than the speed of light". What can move faster than the speed of light this time? Well, it turns out...nothing! But nothing this time refers to "dark points" within a single wavelenght of a polariton. Here'
Dreaming and Alternate Realities
I generally avoid theories that lack support from peer-reviewed research, but occasionally, research emerges that is just too interesting not to mention. The section on dreaming in MAAC is among the most popular topics readers report regarding their experience with the book, and this research suggests a much more extraordinary concept. I'll sometimes challenge participants in workshops and classes to explain how we can be sure that dreams aren't reality and that our shared wo
Taketa and Uloomu or Bouba and Kiki?
In chapter two we introduced takete and uloomu from John Booth Davies' 1978 landmark book, The Psychology of Music , and the phenomenon in which people across cultures will identify an image with sharp angular lines as takete, and one with curvy lines as uloomu. Fast forward to the present and the currently favored words for the same phenomenon are kik and bouba! It turns out that the origin of taketa goes back to 1947 and Wolfgang Kölher who initially associated the phenomen
This year in Neanderthals
Researchers used to think that Neanderthals and Homo sapien sapiens were pretty much separated from each other. But more and more research points to a significant amount of inter relationships, and that Neanderthals were much more tha n "knuckle-dragging brutes that were too dimwitted for moral or religious concepts, probably lacking language and behaviorally less advanced than modern humans." A New York Times summary published in January of 2026, continues to provide eviden


