The old story about the blind men who touched an elephant is a way of teaching us how we should look at the big picture instead of the individual parts. You have to wonder why they didn't just ask a sighted person to set...

Oh, if one person only had the power to do this! But alas, cultural shifts take a critical number of people cooperating, and we don't even know what that number is, much less know how to get them to cooperate, especially...

Always clear your browser history if there's a chance anyone else will be using your computer. You could be thoroughly embarrassed if anyone sees it. I took a peek after my husband used my computer once, and it almost bo...

Your doctor can tell you the benefits of exercising and eating right. Or she'll explain the problems you can run into if you don't. Or she can appeal to your vanity and encourage every little step forward. This doctor ha...

Surely someone somewhere has thought about traveling back in time and eliminating Hitler in a totally non-violent way, haven't they? No? I suppose the idea of killing him is just too useful in our hypothetical conversati...

If you thought there was something just a little creepy about meat generated in a lab without the use of a slaughterhouse, you probably tried to convince yourself that it is infinitely better than killing animals. Leave...

This scene grabs you right here, and then it yanks you quickly in another direction. Yeah, it would be traumatic to encounter someone who honestly doesn't believe in death -so traumatic that you might not even know it's...

You were expecting maybe a riddle? If people actually fell into easily defined categories, we could use our logic skills to figure them out, but the world is a lot messier than that. It's not logic, it's just life. And n...

Ah, life inside the bubble, where the world is divided into two distinct groups: those with agree with us, and those who don't. The internet was supposed to open up the world to global communication, a sharing of ideas....

As we said in the last SMBC comic posted here, looking too deeply into your f...