Editorial: Reality Vs. Illusions
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The Israeli guns have fallen silent - at least for now. Eighteen days of unspeakable cruelty are over â-gain at least temporarily.
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Think you can trade your way to riches? Try a dose of reality.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion.
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Opinion Stepping in and taking charge
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By Cheryl Winkelman, STAFF WRITER We are not alone in the universe if the numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects are to be believed.
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ÂHeroesÂ acts out the fantasy that supernatural forces can improve life. ÂRunawayÂ has a bleaker message: One little mistake can really mess it up.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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A media exhibit featuring a campaign for a fake drug to treat a fictitious illness is causing a stir because some people think the illness is real.
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Richard Prince blurs the distinctions between life and art, truth and fiction, and even automaking and sculpture.
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There's a hidden promise in these results.
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Your virtual candidate calling Comment Politicians long ago gave up on politics. Instead of articulating great ideas, the choice that faces voters today is between identikit managerial bureaucrats who've never had a job outside politics. Most of their adult lives have been spent in the hermetic world of wonkdom. So it's little wonder, then, that they have trouble distinguishing between fiction and reality.â¦
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Debunking the falsehoods springing from this November's contest
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The animal can be a revelation of the human, but more often it appears as a contrast than a comforting reflection.
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Deconstructing a pretty good joke, and the investment lesson held within.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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The trust between storyteller and audience implies that the creator truly create, rather than merely fabricate.