By SARA CORBETT Published: September 16, 2009

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There are but a few handfuls of individuals in all of history whose thinking was so profoundly original that each provided an absolutely new way of thinking for all who followed.

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Cereal producers learned an important lesson: Children are suckers.

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On Tuesday evening at 5:05, Henry Gustav Molaison — known worldwide only as H. M., to protect his privacy — died of respiratory failure at a nursing home in Windsor Locks, Conn.

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Somebody make it stop. This incessant fixation on Hitler's sexuality, on his alleged perversity. I think it's fair to say that the very apex of cultural stupidity in our era is the compulsive conjunction of Hitler and sex. He was a "predatory" homosexual.

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Thomas Hayne Cutbush was a strange, disturbed and violent youth who was diagnosed as insane in 1891 and remained in Broadmoor until his death in 1903. During the period when the Ripper was on the rampage in Whitechapel, east London, Cutbush was wandering the area's streets.

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Thank the sweet lord!

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Tired: space-exploration movies. Wired: brain-exploration movies. The fantastically imagined anime Paprika, which opens today in New York, offers more evidence that sci-fi cinema is trending away from the stars and planets and zooming towards your gray matter.

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Once again, Steven Pinker returns to debunking the doctrine of the noble savage in the following piece based on his lecture at the recent TED Conference in Monterey, California.

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Both Nietzsche, as the nineteenth century wound down, and Foucault in the last third of the twentieth century, responded to and sought a way out of, a profound cultural crisis

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WASHINGTON, DC—A team of leading historians and psychiatrists issued a report Wednesday claiming that the United States was likely the victim of abuse by its founding fathers and motherland when it was a young colony.

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According to this article, art and human aesthetic inclinations are not as dependant on the individual as one might expect. It appears that the things we as humans appreciate artistically are passed on genetically and fine tuned by 80,000 generations of those who went before us.

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