What Lies Beneath In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises. Sean Welsh 23 Jun 2023 · 14 min read
Sex, Love, and Knowing the Difference There are biological reasons that explain why the experience of being in love feels so overwhelming. Debra Soh 3 May 2019 · 6 min read
What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology? Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us. Alex Mackiel 8 Apr 2019 · 19 min read
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”? Larry Cahill 29 Mar 2019 · 11 min read
Science Denial Won’t End Sexism We can acknowledge that male and female brains have differences in structure and function, on average, without subscribing to the belief that one sex is better than the other. Debra Soh 11 Mar 2019 · 6 min read
Every Schoolchild Should Read This Book If read early enough, Innate might provide some inoculation against bad or naïve information about human nature and the indisputable role played by genes. Richard Haier 20 Dec 2018 · 6 min read
The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling the Transgender Movement in Children Nowadays, every left-leaning parent and educator seems content to take a child’s word at face value if they say they were born in the wrong body, not realizing that by doing so, an important conversation is being brushed aside. Debra Soh 23 Oct 2018 · 6 min read
The Neuroscience of Intelligence: An Interview with Richard Haier Is it possible to see if someone is high in g by their brain activity on a PET scan or fMRI scan – and if so, what does it look like? Claire Lehmann 24 Dec 2017 · 8 min read
Is There a Biological Case for Criminal Justice Reform? “We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.” Hal Conick 20 Oct 2017 · 6 min read
