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Charles Darwin probably wouldn’t like what his name now means. He called any “Darwinian” human, having no trace of team loyalty, “an unnatural monster.”

Without context, this is an alien world. How liberating!

Shakespeare never visited America, yet the map of the U.S. is dotted with references to his work. 

Few maximize. Most muddle. So why do economists mainly model the happy few? It makes the math easier, but risks misusing the massive power of markets. Perhaps, like the muddling masses, they should use less math and more logic. 

How “the stats” are being used often causes a fog of low-quality quantification. Multiple regression is widely misunderstood by researchers and journalists.     

Forensic anthropologist Richard Neave has given us the most accurate portrayal of Jesus to date. This still will not change the ways we misrepresent his identity. 

“There’s no more central message of psychology than the fact that most of what goes on in our heads we have no access to.”

Freud was much more than the Id and Oedipus, and he may be the answer to today’s problems.

There’s a strange beauty, yes, but also a violence to Degas’ technique. Where did that violence come from?

Understanding how to become more resilient could rely on a simple linguistic shift. 

While the battle over the next Supreme Court justice will be fought in the realm of bare-knuckle, high-octane politics, the daily business of the justices is often a good deal less partisan.

The first step is recognition. 

We often think of willpower as mentally forging ahead. But to achieve such a mental state, our brain needs proper nourishment.

In Albuquerque and London, organizations are using small-scale employment to give homeless people another chance.

A federal judge has dragged reproductive rights out of the mud of religion into the lofty heights of moral philosophy.

Researchers tested police on major misconceptions about the psychology of policing

Scalia was sitting right next to Clarence Thomas, the sole African-American justice, when he made these startling comments.

Much to the chagrin of NASA rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun, President Richard Nixon chose instead to greenlight the space shuttle program because it intrigued the military-industrial complex.

It’s a brave new world.

The pop-a-pill solution is a non-solution. But what is the alternative? 

More than 20 years ago, the sitcom Seinfeld went “meta” and joked that it was “a show about nothing.” But 20 years before George Costanza’s epiphany, artist Richard Tuttle was staging shows about nothing featuring works such as Wire Piece (detail shown above) — a piece of florist wire nailed at either end to a wall marked with a penciled line. But, as Jerry concludes, there’s “something” in that “nothing.” A new retrospective of Tuttle’s art at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Both/And: Richard Tuttle Print and Cloth, dives into the depths, and widths, of this difficultly philosophical, yet compellingly simple artist who takes the everyday nothings of line, paper, and cloth to create extraordinary statements about the need to be mindful of the artful world all around us.

Lack of deep personal public concern about climate change limits the politically difficult actions governments are willing to take.

A big part of our current mess has to do with how little about religion we actually know.

What’s your verdict?

Vancouverites are in full revolt over outrageous housing costs and the foreign investors behind North America’s biggest bubble.

Three passages that will pay dividends when parsed carefully by a patient reader.

About 1.15 million people in the U.S. have died from gun violence since John Lennon’s death 35 years ago. What can his life and music tell us about how to respond to violence, intolerance, and hate? 

In a world where we all eat fake meat — and so stop breeding domesticated livestock — the animals happiness we prize could simply disappear.

This isn’t limited to religion. 

Sir Richard Francis Burton, famed 19th century explorer, on world religions: “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”