Our old friends Chuck and Roger, who reside on a veldt in South-Central Africa in the Upper Paleolithic, are secure in their occupations...

I’ve noticed some changes lately. Changes in some of the people I know, specifically. Some of them have begun acting differently. And the...

It’s widely agreed that the most interesting character in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey is the homicidal computer HAL 9000, rather than...

There we sat in a vegan cafe, munching on something that hadn’t originated on land but could neither be called seafood. I didn’t ask. My...

Imagine, for a moment, an alternate reality. In this alternate reality, monogamy does not exist. No couples. Instead, sex and partnership...

Among humankind’s less admirable innovations, cognitive clustering may be the most insidious and destructive. Cognitive clustering – the...

Many tens of thousands of years ago, everybody slept together. I know how that sounds, but I’m speaking literally: in our migratory...

Neuroscientist Sam Harris has recently expressed, in interviews and in his book Lying, that deceit is a toxic behavior no matter the...

We thought we knew what crazy looked like before. Since the COVID-19 lockdown, we’ve seen crazy go to a whole new place. We’ve seen food...

For most of the time human beings have existed, we did just fine without religion. It’s a pretty recent invention, as cultural...

An essay by Mackenzie Lynne Brock Citizenship II, 4th Hour Beshear Middle School, 4/22/2076 In times of comfort and prosperity it is...

We are a world of followers. A few leaders are among us, to be sure, but necessarily they are the exception; we are the norm. We who...

It’s not because he’s a bully, pushing and shoving his way through every contact, every relationship, every event in which he finds...

Science writer John Horgan, in pursuit of stories for his collection Mind-Body Problems: Science, Subjectivity & Who We Really Are,...

So my daughter Josie says, “Daddy, when you die – which isn’t all that far off – I can’t decide whether to have you frozen or download...

“Societies entertain such morals as they can afford.” That’s not an exact quote, and for the life of me I can’t remember if it’s Heinlein...