Vaughan Bell

Vaughan Bell is a clinical and neuropsychologist at the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, and King's College London.

Science
May 20 2011 3:32 PMProphecy FailWhat happens to a doomsday cult when the world doesn't end?Vaughan Bell
Science
May 26 2010 11:59 AMJesus, Jesus, JesusIn the late 1950s, three men who identified as the Son of God were forced to live together in a mental hospital. What happened?Vaughan Bell
Science
Dec. 18 2009 12:07 PMThe Addiction HabitDo we really need rehab centers for people who spend too much time shopping or using the Internet?Vaughan Bell
Science
Jan. 9 2011 12:52 AMCrazy TalkWe're too quick to use "mental illness" as an explanation for violence.Vaughan Bell
Science
Feb. 15 2010 7:00 AMDon't Touch That Dial!A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.Vaughan Bell
  News & Politics
Politics
Jan. 27 2015 1:01 PM Bobby Jindal’s Presidential Rollout Is Off to a Terrible Start While other candidates went to Iowa, Jindal headlined an evangelical revival. Zack Kopplin
Why Do Judges and Politicians Flip-Flop? A Survey.
Why de Blasio Was Right to Take On Criminal Justice Reform
How Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Won Over Iowa
Democrats Assumed They Could Embarrass the GOP With Climate Science. Democrats Were Wrong.
Republican Presidential Hopefuls Are Trying to Unlock the Secret of Winning in Iowa
Did the Charlie Hebdo Murders Really Represent Something New?
  Business
Moneybox
Jan. 27 2015 1:52 PM Chipotle’s Sofritas Promotion Was So Popular That a Bunch of Locations Sold Out Alison Griswold
This Hacker Figured How to Hijack One of the Most Popular Drones
Microsoft Is Selling More Phones Than Ever, but It Isn’t Nearly Enough
Greeks Are Voting for Radical Leftists and Nazis. Can You Blame Them?
Uber Will Cap Surge Pricing in East Coast Cities During the Worst of the Blizzard
Facebook Launches “Facebook Lite” in Emerging Markets
A Flight Attendant Explains How SkyMall Didn’t Make Its Money From Its Catalog
  Life
Outward
Jan. 27 2015 1:18 PM Ireland Is Having a Gay Moment Brandon Tensley
This Prefab Cube Shrinks an Entire House Into One Tiny Structure
Help! Our Baby Won’t Sleep Through the Night, Making It Hard to Have Sex.
Meet Kevin Daniels, the Actor Behind One of TV’s Most Interesting Gay Characters
A Victorian Argument That Snow Is Holy, Illustrated by a Beautiful Catalog of Flakes 
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Mustn’t Forget Nazism’s Gay Victims
What Is the Most Important Classical Chinese Painting?
  Double X
The XX Factor
Jan. 26 2015 4:29 PM What's Stopping New Orleans From Getting a Brand New Planned Parenthood Clinic Amanda Marcotte
How the Great Blizzard of 1888 Killed the Petticoat
Study on Women’s Painkiller Use Causes Concern Over Hypothetical Embryos, Not Actual Women
Republican Women Stopped the 20-Week Abortion Bill. That’s Not Standing Up for Reproductive Rights.
Ultra-Orthodox Women in Israel Are Treated Horribly. So They Started Their Own Party. 
Boehner Applauded Equal Pay at Last Year’s State of the Union. Why Not This Year?
Obama Declares Child Care “a Must Have”
  Slate Plus
Jurisprudence
Jan. 27 2015 11:18 AM Slate Voice: “American Liar” Listen to Mark Joseph Stern read his piece about Jesse Ventura’s defamation suit against Chris Kyle. Mark Joseph Stern
A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on Downton Abbey Episode 4
Jeremy Stahl on What Slate Stories Broke Facebook This Week
A Spoiler-Filled Podcast on American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 13
What Should Slate Do in 2015? Tell Slate’s Editor in Chief.
  Arts
Brow Beat
Jan. 27 2015 12:20 PM Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright on the Challenges of Making a Doc About Scientology Forrest Wickman and Rob Naylor
Everything That’s Happened Around Adnan Syed’s Case Since Serial Premiered: A Timeline
Watch the First Trailer for Fantastic Four, Starring Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan
The Many Modern-Day Kings and Queens of Nigeria
Shameik Moore on the Significance of Dope in the Wake of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown
When Will Downton Abbey’s Miss Bunting Mind Her Manners? Two Slate Critics Dissect the Latest Episode.
Director Craig Zobel on Faith vs. Science in His New Post-Apocalyptic Drama
  Technology
Future Tense
Jan. 27 2015 11:00 AM Watch GIF-iti Artist INSA Create the World’s Largest GIF A.J. McCarthy
How Technology Is Changing the Family Tree: A Future Tense Event Recap
Police Oppose Police-Tracking Function in GPS App Waze
Why the Top-Rated Restaurants on Yelp Are Places You've Never Heard Of
The Simpsons Imagines How Elon Musk Could Save and Destroy the Future
The Messy Debate Over Liability and Cybersecurity
My Grandmother’s House Is the Birthplace of Apple Computers
  Health & Science
Bad Astronomy
Jan. 27 2015 11:41 AM Astronomers Find Ancient Earth-Sized Planets in Our Galactic Backyard Phil Plait
Western Australia Is Perverting Science to Kill Sharks, and Scientists are Furious
Online Comments Can Influence What People Think About Vaccines
Catching a Comet’s Dusty Breath
Stunning Comet Close-Up Photos Reveal a Tiny Alien World
The “Good Guy With a Gun” Is a Myth
It Is Statistically Impossible for Mass Surveillance to Be an Effective Anti-Terrorism Tool
  Sports
Sports Nut
Jan. 27 2015 1:16 PM Dear Patriots Haters A message from a Pats fan to all the chafing, crybaby chumps out there. Seth Stevenson
The Patriots Became Nearly Fumble-Proof After a 2006 Rule Change Pushed by Tom Brady
The New England Patriots’ Prevention of Fumbles Is Nearly Impossible
The Five Stages of Patriots Fans’ Ballghazi Grief
Why NFL Quarterbacks Should Be Allowed to Do What They Want With Their Balls
Why Bill Belichick and His Antics Make the NFL a Better Place
NFL Investigates Patriots for Possibly Tampering With AFC Championship Game Balls