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Hunting Down the First Americans
James Adovasio stood on a platform on an overcast day last week, about forty feet up the side of...
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Infections, Institutions, & Life History: Searching For The Origins Of Individualism & Collectivism
The life of Ferdinand Tonnies, German sociologist and political activist, is a testament to the dramatic social changes which...
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Lip-Smacking Primate Hints at Speech Evolution
Most primates make rudimentary calls that consist of one or two syllables. But the gelada—native only to the grasslands...
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Urban Heat May Warm Faraway Places
The massive amounts of heat produced by cities may be heating up rural areas 1,000 miles away, atmospheric researchers...
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The Climate Change Endgame
Whether in Davos or almost anywhere else that leaders are discussing the world’s problems, they are missing by far...
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Loneliness, Like Chronic Stress, Taxes the Immune System
New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to...
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Time for Science to Seize Political Power
In your wildest dreams, could you imagine a government that builds its policies on carefully gathered scientific evidence? One...
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Global Warming Is Changing Our Daily Life in the U.S.
A special panel of scientists issued a report detailing the dozens of ways how climate change is already disrupting...
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The Delights of Disgust
Disgust is the subject of numerous recent works in widely different areas of philosophy, including moral and legal philosophy,...
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Climate Change: Generational Evil
In 2012, the dangers of human-caused climate disturbance became undeniable, making this the fundamental moral issue of our time.