The State of ‘Nature’
Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really know.
Oliver Traldi
· 7 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 320 posts
Gender Equity When It Suits
Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.
Anthony Jorm
· 6 min read
The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills
Fatherless children are at higher risk of delinquency that undermines their own prospects and disrupts the communities in which they reside.
David C. Geary
· 12 min read
Heavy Lifting
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession.
Joe Lombardo
· 10 min read
Artificially Intelligent Offense?
ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 12 min read
AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit
The first stage of grief is denial, but despair is also misplaced.
Steven D. Hales
· 13 min read
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions
Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
The Crypto Token Economy Is Second-Order Fraud
The entire industry is artifice built atop artifice.
Sohale Mortazavi
· 17 min read
Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith
In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 11 min read
Experiences with Suicide
Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.
Art Kusserow
· 9 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct
The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
Saving Twitter—A Roundtable
Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter has led many commentators to wonder if the platform can be improved by its new owner. In this roundtable, three writers offer their thoughts and suggestions.
Bo Winegard, Jim Rutt, and Cody Moser
· 17 min read
The Philadelphia Experiments
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
Allen M. Hornblum
· 26 min read
Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction
The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
Vinod Goel
· 12 min read
Religious Permanence
The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain.
Bo Winegard
· 10 min read