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The human face is the most precise signal system we have for our emotions. We can read seven different emotions and determine whether they’re being falsified or whether they are genuine expressions.
There is a large group of child prodigies who go on to a life of relative mediocrity.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank says the legislators of the Baby Boom generation are to blame for the current state of dysfunction in Washington. Is that a fair assessment? If it is, what’s the solution?
There are many reasons and good approaches, but this advice applies to everyone. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”-Maya Angelou Each one of us […]
Dan Savage: Monogamy is ridiculous and people aren’t any good at it.
Scientists have developed a way of trapping single sperm cells inside metal nanotubes. The direction of these ‘spermbots’ can be controlled remotely to deliver drugs or fertilize an egg.
Four years ago a paper by Dan Sperber published in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology coined the term: The Guru Effect – the tendency for people to “judge profound […]
Lee Smolin: As long as people of faith respect the facts and the deductions of science we should be respectful of their faith and their search for a faith.
You just absolutely cannot separate the affects of genes from the affects of the environment, so all we can do is identify the resources that we have in our environments and maximize them as best we can.
Take a guess: what percentage of the world’s nuclear weapons would cause the deaths of one billion people?
If you really look at the history of life on this planet, you see a lot of biologically-produced catastrophes. Where do they come from? From life itself.
If people cooked 50 percent of their meals, as opposed to what’s probably 20 percent of their meals, it would have a huge impact on both their health and on the environment, and it would be almost entirely positive.
Jim Kakalios: Personally, I’d like to be able to catch my thought every now and then.
Bill Nye argues that we need a generation of scientifically literate students in order to be successful in the 21st century.
What we can glean from success in the sports world.
Robert Pinsky: At the airport, everybody else was listening to the clatter of CNN in the background and announcements about other flights, and I was getting some work done.
We’re literally learning as much about the evolution of life on Earth by looking at what happened in the past as we are at looking at the breakthroughs in genomics and DNA of living things.
Violence broke out in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine today between pro-democracy protesters and riot police. At least nine people have been killed and hundreds more seriously injured, including journalists […]
Historical trends certainly had an effect on how physics as a discipline progressed. These trends affected the lives of many people.
A large asteroid hit us in the Yucatan Peninsula causing the mass extinction. Was the impact just the coup de grace coming on an already affected world?
Vikas Pota: I care a lot about education because I’m the product of education.
A parent who wants their child to be great at something, absolutely cannot put love out there as a reward.
The difference in personalities between people who get good at stuff or get great at stuff is the people who get great at stuff really find satisfaction in the constant pushing process.
If you’re a hunter-gatherer, as we are, you better get up in the morning and think it is a great day to catch an elephant.
There are 4,200 religions in the world, each of them believing they’re absolutely correct and everyone should follow their views.
Alva Noë: Too many cognitive scientists tend to take a 17th century conception of the person as an individual island trapped inside his or her head and we need to break free of that.
Analytical thinking is not so hot at creating something that does not now exist. Intuitive thinking is not so hot at keeping the trains running. And so you need a combination of those two things.
Business at it’s best it can be an engine of the kind of change that we all want to help us live better lives.
Change is hard to do. In fact, for many “change” is a dirty word. Regardless, our society is set-up to embrace change. Every New Years Eve we flaunt our resolutions […]