Evolutionary Conflict and the Family
We should start at the beginning, which is to say, conception. That magical moment when sperm meets egg holds an important insight.
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
Harold Bloom and Aesthetics in an Age of Piety
Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung.
James Walker
· 6 min read
On Opinions and Entitlement
The claim that we are “entitled to our opinion” is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
Jamie Palmer
· 13 min read
Why Innovation Requires Economic Freedom
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
Aaron Tao
· 5 min read
The Great Diversity Scam
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Stephen Beard
· 3 min read
The Bermuda Triangle of Science
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
Brian Boutwell
· 9 min read
How to Have an Opinion Worth Hearing
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
Female Genital Cutting: Harm, Human Rights and the Possibility of a Sex-Neutral Approach
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
Robert Darby
· 16 min read
The Myth of "Rape Culture" at Columbia University
To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 5 min read
Music and Language, Cultural Identity and Fame
Tracking the evolution of music over recent centuries.
Geoffrey Lehmann
· 20 min read
Taking the Wonder Out of Science Education
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.
Emma C Williams
· 7 min read
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
Brian D Earp
· 8 min read
Breaking Up with Libertarianism
After discovering the work of Dr Williams, I parked myself under his learning tree and began to soak up as much information as I could.
William Blake
· 12 min read
Evolving Our Way to Artificial Intelligence
If the AI that controls other players evolved, it may go through the same steps that made our brain work.
Arend Hintze
· 5 min read