Intellect

The framing effect, the strawman fallacy, loaded words, confirmation bias and the availability heuristic — how they are...

How do you protect yourself and your children from logical fallacies? Fifteen practical rules for reasoning straight — a...

In 1953 an American intelligence officer named Edward Hunter coined the term "brainwashing" after Korean War prisoners r...

From Orwell's 1984 and the old battle of words and belief, Hunter traces how brainwashing works — and why it always begi...

The Symbionese Liberation Army, barely 21 members, terrorized the United States — and their kidnapping of Patty Hearst e...

The CIA's Project MKUltra turned brainwashing into a weapon, and Patty Hearst's case forced experts to examine it as a p...

Two Christian clerics in China faced the same brainwashing, yet one broke and one did not. The difference lay in culture...

How the "Battle of Awareness" hashtag was used to fill minds with nonsense, what propaganda really is, and how to protec...

From the legends of the Moon to its geology, tidal locking and what would happen if it vanished — a journey from Earth...

The stars are suns, and our Sun is a slow nuclear furnace — plus what would happen if it vanished, and why Mercury and...

Venus, the planet of riddles: named for the goddess of beauty, once perhaps like Earth, now a piece of hell with acid ra...

Earth, the blue planet and the only one currently home to intelligent life — its closed water cycle, its atmosphere, and...