2008 March / April
Volume 119 | No. 2
Minding the brain
New discoveries suggests a networked brain that loves to make and break rules, and thrives on mistakes, in search of a deeper truth.
Do you have free will?
John Searle reflects on various philosophical questions in light of new research on the brain.
Mind medicine
Can meditation produce positive molecular changes in the brain?
Nurture into Nature
Can changes based on nutrition, toxics, or a mother's touch be biologically inherited?
Faking it
Second Life offers its "residents" a chance to invent a whole new life for themselves. Can it deliver?
Family violence
Guatemalan novelist Sylvia Sellers-García explores the unnameable.
