Misunderstanding Equality
If confusion between moral and empirical claims persists, we will find ourselves asked to choose between the truth and our ethical preferences.
Bo Winegard
· 11 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 377 posts
Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus
The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors.
Robert C. Thornett
· 8 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game
The only winning move is not to play.
Niamh Jiménez
· 20 min read
Fate, Faith, and Suffering
Coping is not enough. We must strive to live.
Samuel Kronen
· 27 min read
The Ideological Refusal to Acknowledge Evolved Sex Differences
Boys and girls are not infinitely malleable, socially constructed products of the patriarchy.
David C. Geary
· 13 min read
The Fall of ‘Nature’
A once-respected journal has announced that it will be subordinating science to ideology.
Bo Winegard
· 12 min read
Tinder and Toxicity
Why Lonely Single Men Should Delete Dating Apps.
Domanic Towers
· 7 min read
We Won’t Force Addicts to Change
We are wasting tremendous resources on ineffective, mandatory approaches to addiction.
Craig K. Svensson
· 14 min read
Apple’s Depressing Denouement
A review of ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,’ by Tripp Mickle (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022).
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Guilty and Insane
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
Daniel Kriegman
· 20 min read
Should We Consider Aging a Disease?
Rethinking human “enhancement” in an era of sick-care.
Raiany Romanni
· 6 min read
The New Prohibition
The neuroscientific model of addiction is at odds with our freedom to experience the sensual life.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 10 min read
Cognitive Distortions
How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
Shuichi Tezuka
· 24 min read
The Metaverse: Science Fiction or Reality?
We tend to overestimate a technology’s abilities in the near term, and massively underestimate what it can do in the long term.
Randall Mayes
· 9 min read
The Burden of the Best?
From self-belief to self-care.
Steve Salerno
· 13 min read