Empty Brains and the Fringes of Psychology

by Rebecca Baumgartner There’s a fascinating figure wandering aimlessly around the halls of psychology on the internet, and his name is Robert Epstein.  Epstein is a 69-year-old psychologist who trained in B.F. Skinner’s pigeon lab in the 70s and now works at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California, a nonprofit supporting…

Antarctica and the People Who Write Their Names on It

by Rebecca Baumgartner Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the Antarctic explorer who would become famous for documenting Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition in his book The Worst Journey in the World, wrote a letter in 1919 in which he cast doubt on the purity of the motives of one of the expedition members, Lieutenant Edward “Teddy” Evans: “There will…be…