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Jan 22, 2011 — Joshua Knobe & Kiley Hamlin
Growing evidence that babies make moral judgments
Can babies detect intentions?
Do we need to teach children right from wrong?
Developmental roots of the Red Sox-Yankees conflict
Are adults just big babies?
The potentially disturbing meaning of tolerance
Jan 15, 2011 — John Horgan & George Johnson
Stop the presses! George joins the blogosphere
The many evils of Facebook
John blasts away at gun nuts
Gun ownership and violence: a complicated relationship
What are the pleasures of war?
Can science make sense of Jared Lee Loughner?
Dec 25, 2010 — John Horgan & George Johnson
In praise of dark movies at Christmas
Homosexuality, the Amish, and evolution
Is the population problem solving itself?
How did Freeman Dyson become a climate skeptic?
Climate change: cries of despair and rays of hope
How many people have ever lived?
Dec 18, 2010 — John Horgan & George Johnson
George’s California encounter with medicinal marijuana
The “decline effect” and scientists’ biases
Subtleties of scientific fraud
The dangers of seeing pictures in the clouds
Do physicists have excessively wild imaginations?
Is anthropology a science?
Dec 11, 2010 — Robert Wright & Kevin Kelly
Kevin’s new book, “What Technology Wants”
Can technology be sentient?
How our gadgets have already made us into cyborgs
The selfishness and the generosity of our machines
Spirituality and the limits of science
Kevin’s Paradoxical God
Dec 4, 2010 — Jason Goldman & Eric Michael Johnson
The tumultuous history of the science of cooperation
Bonobos, chimps, and self-domestication
Inequality and maternal infanticide
Are undergrads overused as research subjects?
How dolphins deal with their friends and enemies
Running the “human zoo”
Nov 13, 2010 — John Horgan & Jesse Bering
Jesse’s forthcoming book, “The Belief Instinct”
Messy truths about human sexuality
How wrong was Freud?
What makes gay people gay?
Excessive masturbation as distinctively human
Semen pharmacology and penis evolution
Nov 6, 2010 — John Horgan & George Johnson
Does plasma fusion have a future?
The perils of catching cancer early
A critical look at Stephen Hawking’s latest
Mandelbrot and the quest for revolutionary science
What’s happening at the LHC?
Praise for scientific cross-fertilization
Oct 30, 2010 — Oren Harman & Mark Borrello
The problem of altruism at the dawn of Darwinism
Is nature a battlefield? It depends on where you look
Superorganisms and the politics of the 20th Century
The evolution of group selection theory
The strange story of George Price
The future of the science of altruism
Oct 23, 2010 — Robert Wright & Lee Smolin
From the universe’s POV, what good is intelligent life?
Devotion to science vs. the devotion of groupies
Lee’s frustrations with string theory
A brief discussion of time (and free will)
Is there a physics beyond quantum mechanics?
Lee’s theory of “cosmological natural selection”
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