Google Taught Me How to Cut My Own Hair

In the Internet era, the most accessible information is the most valuable. 09.27.2007

Blinded by Science: Fictional Reality

Sci-fi helped make the present; now it's obsolete. 07.20.2007

The Make-Believe Mars

Earthlings go to Mars-esque locales to prepare for the real thing. 06.21.2007

The Math Behind Beauty

A plastic surgeon computes the perfect face. 06.01.2007

Blinded by Science: IQ Is Dumb

Get ready for gentler aptitude ratings like Ideaphoria and Foresight. 05.23.2007

Blinded by Science: Addicted to Beef

In the face of mad cow disease, why did the British keep eating their beef? 04.12.2007

Blinded by Science: The New Hypnosis

It's benevolent, it's peaceful, and your iPod can be the hypnotist. 03.12.2007

Blinded by Science: Stuck in Creationism

The designers of the Creation Museum insist that science is fundamental. 02.12.2007

Blinded by Science: The Real Reason We Can't Find bin Laden

It is difficult to map a land, and Afghanistan remains as elusive as a terrorist in hiding. 01.16.2007

Blinded by Science: Birding Brains

How birding in Central Park in an age of terror makes the man 11.30.2006

Blinded by Science: Troubled in Twin Town

What a twins convention in the Midwest tells us about the future of humanity. 11.03.2006

Blinded by Science: Who's Freaky Now?

How abhorrence and attraction affect our bioethical judgment. 10.11.2006

Blinded by Science: Hawking's Exit Strategy

Why is one of the thinking community's heavy hitters dabbling in doomsday prophecy? 09.01.2006

Blinded by Science: The Last Days of Gossip

When everyone knows everything, what will be the point? 08.01.2006

Blinded by Science: The Way of All Flesh

Bringing home the bacon may become a thing of the past when we can grow our own. 07.12.2006

Blinded by Science: Nightmare of Divided Loyalties

Fahrenheit has warm familiarity on its side, and Celsius weighs in with cool logic. We need something completely different 06.25.2006

Blinded By Science: What Were We Thinking?

All along it has been the unconscious mind churning away brilliantly and undetectably that has raised us above the din 05.29.2006

Blinded by Science

In praise of the bolder world of the first Internet 04.27.2006

About Blinded By Science

Bruno Maddox has enjoyed a long and tangential relationship with the world of science. As the son of former Nature editor Sir John Maddox, young Bruno sat through dinners with such éminences grises as James Watson and Sir Fred Hoyle, and once accepted a collect call from a hysterical Russian scientist who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine.

Maddox retreated to the humanities during his school days in London and later as editor of Spy magazine, but the allure of science proved too great to ignore. In his column Maddox enjoys the opportunity to pursue his "bizarre and fleeting interests with total freedom." Maddox is also the author of the novel, My Little Blue Dress (Viking, 2001).