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By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellect...more

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Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here bec...more

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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or ...more

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The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are powerless to deny it ...more

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Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modu...more

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Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist who keeps a database with the estimated death tolls of history’s major wars, massacres, and genocides, ...more

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During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that they will starve to death. The children stumble upon ...more

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Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

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Behavioral science is not for sissies.

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Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable ...more