Sociology's Stagnation The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up. Brian Boutwell 5 Mar 2017 · 11 min read
If You’re Reading This Essay, You Should Probably Have (More) Children A number of popular articles (and books) have implored people to have fewer children as a way of minimizing anthropogenic global warming. Jonathan Anomaly / Brian Boutwell 2 Feb 2017 · 6 min read
Medicine Must Not Forget the Psychosocial The real beauty of the biopsychosocial approach is that it has application to the individual (both in terms of causal explanation and of treatment offered), to the wider population, and to research. Tim Rogers 18 Jan 2017 · 8 min read
Science as Art All of this discussion leaves unanswered the question of how we decide if something represents a breakthrough — after all, there isn’t an international court of arbitration for creativity. Adam Perkins 18 Nov 2016 · 9 min read
Why Universities Should Get Rid of PowerPoint and Why They Won't Overreliance on slides has contributed to the absurd belief that expecting and requiring students to read books, attend classes, take notes and do homework is unreasonable. Paul Ralph 2 Sep 2016 · 4 min read
On the Reality of Race & the Abhorrence of Racism Part II: Human Biodiversity & Its Implications This can be avoided with a moratorium, but then we’re back to square one. This sparks a near infinite regress of bad options. Brian Boutwell 9 Aug 2016 · 12 min read
The Future of Genetic Enhancement is Not in the West If the critics are correct that human enhancement is unethical, dangerous or both, then yes, emergence in China would be worrying. G Owen Schaefer 2 Aug 2016 · 5 min read
Marketing Grit: When Science Lags Behind Populism But the real reason for Duckworth’s genius is that she’s been able to do all of this based on shaky science. Parker Brown 7 May 2016 · 6 min read
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 11 Apr 2016 · 10 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 18 Mar 2016 · 5 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 6 Feb 2016 · 5 min read
Unscrambling the Second Law of Thermodynamics All these specific conditions (loud volume, correct support, a vowel that works) must be met in order to sing a high note. Brendon Brewer 28 Jan 2016 · 15 min read
Business Journals Vow to Publish Studies That Prove Nothing It will be important to see how many researchers and journals indeed opt to publish null-findings, and whether and how that affects their impact factor and ranking over time. Ramon Wenzel 11 Jan 2016 · 5 min read
The Kids Are All Right Humans, like all organisms, are the product of evolution. And what evolution ‘cares’ about is genetic propagation: how many genes are passed from one generation to the next. Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard 5 Jan 2016 · 22 min read
The Great Statistical Schism 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. Brendon Brewer 13 Nov 2015 · 7 min read
