Parenting effects usually play some role in our conception of why some people behave differently than others
Because democracy reflects the will of the majority, extremists will never win a fair election.
University life is beginning to sound like a dystopian world; hollow-eyed students hunting in packs, scouring the landscape for dissenting individuals unplugged from the matrix.
A large section of the critics of intervention today are making similar assumptions in both the moral and practical assessments of the choices before us.
The GI theory goes that there are many different types of carbs and they can be graded into how rapidly the body converts them into glucose.
Information warfare combines electronic warfare, cyberwarfare and psy-ops (psychological operations) into a single fighting organisation, and this will be central to all warfare in the future.
Tetlock recruited 284 pundits and had them make 82,000 individual predictions from 1983 to 2003.
If traditional warfare is one of the culprits of increasing radicalization, then such an approach is the only viable one.
As political positions have crystallised in the week following the attacks, there is increasing conflation of these three elements within the debate.
Much has been said about the attacks that does not require repeating. Yet it is worth bearing out that the Paris attacks may indeed be an inflection point in this century’s history.
Our intellectual ascendency defined us as a species and is inextricably linked to our success and our ability to connect with one another.
In the early 20th century, this led to a split in the field of statistics, with intense debates taking place about whose methods and ways of thinking were better.
Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work.
It implies the effortlessness in which a fragment of a song, arriving in the inner ear without conscious effort, can continually loop and stick around.
The tyranny of confirmation bias and the fanaticism of its enforcers are not only a disaster for academics themselves.