Stephen Pinker – Getting Better all the Time?
Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the …
Tag Archives: human behavior
Baboons and You: A Natural History of Peace
Robert Sapolsky is a highly celebrated neuroendocrinologist, who has also spent years in the wild observing baboon troops, putting him in a …
The Prison of Belief
“Just because you believe it doesn’t make it true,” reads a bumper sticker I’ve recently seen. It’s not a popular …
Why Do Underdogs Fight? Malcolm Gladwell Wonders…
Malcolm Gladwell, a hunter-gatherer of human behavior, and about as well known a writer as one could be, appeared at …
Lesson Plan: The Story of The Third Wave – a Movie
How is it that Buddhist Cambodians turn into unapologetic mass murderers? How could Christian Germans become fervent believers in, and …