A collection of 382 posts
Why do so many people reflexively favour social solutions to climate change while discounting the promise of technological breakthroughs? The answer lies in our evolutionary past.
Assuring the long-term future of Earth’s wildlife requires more economic and technological development, not less.
The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality.
Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed.
Many psychological and behavioural gaps between men and women have widened in more gender-equal countries, dealing a major blow to sociological theories of sex differences.
If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.
A 2020 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.
Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.
Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.
Advancing technology is changing the way we fight wars and our understanding of heroism.
Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.
It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.