The state of the universe.

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• Return of the Neuropundits! Should presidential candidates have their brains scanned?
  Daniel Engber Dec. 7, 2007
  
• Proust Wasn't a Neuroscientist How Jonah Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist overstates the case.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 26, 2007
  
• Neuropundits Gone Wild! Befuddling brain science on the opinion pages of the New York Times.
  Daniel Engber Nov. 14, 2007
  
• The Out-of-Body Electric Can scientists make your soul fly away?
  Daniel Engber Aug. 23, 2007
  
• The Cat Who Knew Too Much A dose of sentimental claptrap from the New England Journal of Medicine.
  Daniel Engber Aug. 1, 2007
  
• Bee Not Afraid The disappearance of the honeybees isn't the end of the world.
  Heather Smith July 13, 2007
  
• Quantum Scoop The Holy Grail of particle physics may already have been found.
  James Owen Weatherall June 4, 2007
  
• The Growth Hormone Myth What athletes, fans, and the sports media don't understand about HGH.
  Daniel Engber March 24, 2007
  
• Unintelligent Design How birds got to fly.
  Arthur Allen March 7, 2007
  
• Bye-Bye to the Aye-Aye Who wants to save an ugly animal?
  March 1, 2007
  
• Wind Chill Blows It's time to get rid of a meaningless number.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 9, 2007
  
• You're Getting Warmer … The new statistical rhetoric of climate change.
  Daniel Engber Feb. 6, 2007
  
• Survival of the Yummiest Should we buy Michael Pollan's nutritional Darwinism?
  Daniel Engber Jan. 31, 2007