Could your feelings about your relationship change with something so seemingly trivial as the ground beneath your feet?
Symmetry is crucial to biology: an Interview with Robert Trivers
Trivers’s ingenious conception of parent-offspring conflict proposes that parents will want to invest equally in all their children (since they are all equally genetically related to the parent), while siblings will each try to get more of their parents’ investment, to the disadvantage of their brothers and sisters.
Trivers’s ingenious conception of parent-offspring conflict proposes that parents will want to invest equally in all their children (since they are all equally genetically related to the parent), while siblings will each try to get more of their parents’ investment, to the disadvantage of their brothers and sisters.
When a Season Comes Early, it Has a Deadly Butterfly
Spring is arriving earlier because of global warming, but global warming is not going to change day-lengths, which are controlled by the Earth’s orbit. And so the life cycles of species that respond to temperature become uncoupled from those that respond to day-length.
Spring is arriving earlier because of global warming, but global warming is not going to change day-lengths, which are controlled by the Earth’s orbit. And so the life cycles of species that respond to temperature become uncoupled from those that respond to day-length.
Democracies fail when they ask too little of their citizens
Democracy has come to mean little more than electing politicians on the basis of their promises, then watching them fail to keep them.
Democracy has come to mean little more than electing politicians on the basis of their promises, then watching them fail to keep them.
Bad Thoughts Can’t Make You Sick, That’s Just Magical Thinking
The abundance of conditions supposedly caused by psychosocial stress is enough to raise alarm bells in a critical, scientific enquirer.
The abundance of conditions supposedly caused by psychosocial stress is enough to raise alarm bells in a critical, scientific enquirer.
ISIS has studied the past successes of terrorism all too well
While governments regularly decry terrorism as ineffective, the terrorists themselves have an abiding faith in their violence, and for good reason. Theirs is a trade and they learn it from one other.
While governments regularly decry terrorism as ineffective, the terrorists themselves have an abiding faith in their violence, and for good reason. Theirs is a trade and they learn it from one other.
A Temporary Marriage Makes More Sense than Marriage for Life
Longevity alone shouldn’t be the marker of a happy, healthy marriage.
Longevity alone shouldn’t be the marker of a happy, healthy marriage.
The Secret of My Shameless Love for Money Real and Imagined
My home is not a residence but a cash machine to which only I have the PIN.
My home is not a residence but a cash machine to which only I have the PIN.
We Have Greater Moral Obligations to Robots Than to Humans
I want to challenge this consensus, but not in the way you might predict.
I want to challenge this consensus, but not in the way you might predict.
Is Great Philosophy, by Its Nature, Difficult and Obscure?
Academics assume an advanced knowledge of philosophy.
Academics assume an advanced knowledge of philosophy.
In Space, There Really Might Be No Place Like Home
In the quest to learn whether we are alone in the cosmos, astronomers are teasing out subtle wobbles and periodic dimmings of distant stars.
In the quest to learn whether we are alone in the cosmos, astronomers are teasing out subtle wobbles and periodic dimmings of distant stars.
Why Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes You Wiser
This small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases.
This small change in perspective can clear your emotional fog, allowing you to see past your biases.
Why Synthetic Chemicals Seem More Toxic Than Natural Ones
I study toxicology: I look at the effects of substances on living organisms.
I study toxicology: I look at the effects of substances on living organisms.
Protest Is Not Enough to Topple a Dictator, the Army Must Also Turn
However solitary the power of an authoritarian leader might seem, dictators never rule alone. And mass protests alone are never enough.
However solitary the power of an authoritarian leader might seem, dictators never rule alone. And mass protests alone are never enough.
The Hypersane Are Among Us, If Only We Are Prepared to Look
Hypersane people are calm, contained and constructive.
Hypersane people are calm, contained and constructive.
Let Us Now Stop Praising Famous Men [And Women]
The upper echelons of society bathe in a sea of honours, awards and celebrity.
The upper echelons of society bathe in a sea of honours, awards and celebrity.