Why Today's Teens Aren't In Any Hurry to Grow Up To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in. Jean Twenge 27 Sep 2017 · 5 min read
Smearing Free Thought In Silicon Valley Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual. Gideon Scopes 25 Sep 2017 · 8 min read
Is Sex a Dirty Word? Within the lens of Western culture, it is sex and not money that is the primary root of all evil. Craig Bielert and David C Geary 19 Sep 2017 · 21 min read
Internet Infrastructure is the New Battleground for Free Speech This robustness does still exist, but only at a fairly low level, where raw packets of data are routed between numerical addresses. Matthew Mott 15 Sep 2017 · 4 min read
How Animal Genes Go into Battle to Dominate Their Offspring One consequence of these genetic battles is the effect on reproductive compatibility within a species. Constantino de Jesus Macias Garcia and Michael Ritchie 10 Sep 2017 · 5 min read
A Policy of Censorship More Extreme Than Google There is no room for nuance, no room for subtlety. Feelings supersede facts. The emotions of the most fragile must be soothed at any cost, even if the truth is a casualty. Gideon Scopes 10 Sep 2017 · 8 min read
Genetics, Fear, and the Slippery Slope of Moral Authoritarianism Many warnings were offered up to us about how well-meaning scientists and policy makers could slip into using genetic information maleficently. Charleen Adams 6 Sep 2017 · 9 min read
The Case for Psychedelics Psychedelics are incredible tools whose significance lies in their ability to catalyze the power of the human mind for healing, creativity, and spiritual consciousness. W. Keith Campbell and Brandon Weiss 4 Sep 2017 · 14 min read
The Google Memo: The Economist On Nothing This may come as a surprise to those who developed their opinion about it, not by reading the memo itself but by absorbing accounts of it in the popular press. Patrick Lee Miller 31 Aug 2017 · 27 min read
Science, Sin, and Paternalism The message is loud and clear: sugar is bad, government regulation is good, and now we have the science to prove it. Matthew Mott 15 Aug 2017 · 5 min read
The Google Diversity Memo: It’s still stereotyping—just not the way you think it is! What Google needs to do is to tailor its diversity policies towards the men and women who work at Google. Renee Adams and Vanitha Ragunathan 11 Aug 2017 · 4 min read
Should We “Stop Equating ‘Science’ With Truth”? The message that liberates women is not: men and women are the same, and anyone who tells you different is oppressing you. Heather E. Heying 11 Aug 2017 · 7 min read
The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both. Lee Jussim / Geoffrey Miller / David P Schmitt / Debra Soh 7 Aug 2017 · 14 min read
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Importance of Taking AI Risks Seriously With the very real possibility that such technology will be able to make changes to itself, even a slight diversion from goals that match our own could be disastrous. Keiran Harris 30 Jul 2017 · 6 min read
Traditionalists and Activists are Both Wrong About Sex and Gender The clearest evidence for this lack of a distinction is the fact that most individuals are cisgender (individuals whose gender identity aligns with their biological sex). Gregory Gorelik 30 Jul 2017 · 8 min read
