Besides burning the author’s book, certain of his more rabid critics seemed likely to have spent their days fantasizing about ...

That’s my little dog Roscoe P. Coltrane, a rescue who came to us in Dallas just for the weekend, and who has been with us for nine years. I did not care much for dogs until Roscoe showed up and made ...

Rupert Sheldrake is a pseudoscientist who has made his name promoting various kinds of woo, including telepathy (including in dogs!), immaterial minds, and his crazy idea of “morphic resonance,” a ...

The question: Are Rupert Sheldrake's theories scientific? If not, why not? Sheldrake is scientific – at least in many respects – but his theory is wrong. So the interesting question is why his books ...

Rupert Sheldrake grew up with animals: dogs, rabbits, hamsters, pigeons, a jackdaw, a terrapin, several goldfish and caterpillars. He got interested in how pigeons found their way home. That led him ...

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This past week at the end of two separate readings for my new book Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation (see ...

The unlucky fact that our current form of mechanistic materialism rests on muddled, outdated notions of matter isn't often mentioned today. It's a mess that can be ignored for everyday scientific ...

This past week at the end of two separate readings for my new book Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation (see ...