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newyorker.com | Article Link | by Maria Konnikova

On January 27, 2011, from a stage in the middle of the San Antonio Convention Center, Jonathan Haidt addressed the participants of the annual meeting of th...More

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quantamagazine.org | Article Link | by Natalie Wolchover

Imagine an archipelago where each island hosts a single tortoise species and all the islands are connected — say by rafts of flotsam. As the tortoises...More

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3quarksdaily.com | Article Link | by Jalees Rehman

Does morality depend on the time of the day? The study "The Morning Morality Effect: The Influence of Time of Day on Unethical Behavior"published...More

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www.nytimes.com | Article Link | by Steven Erlanger

Salzburg, Austria — Margaret MacMillan, who has written one of the best recent histories of the origins of World War I, finds the curren...More

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edudemic.com | Article Link | by Jeff Dunn

YouTube has progressed beyond cat videos. Twitter is more than just sharing what you’re eating for dinner. All of the major social networks are keystones of...More

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aeon.co | Article Link | by Jacob Burak

I have good news and bad news. Which would you like first? If it’s bad news, you’re in good company – that’s what most people pick. But why?

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scientiasalon.wordpress.com | Article Link | by Massimo Pigliucci

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” So wrote Immanuel Kant in his Cri...More

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aeon.co | Article Link | by Michael Schulson

In the 1970s, a young American anthropologist named Michael Dove set out for Indonesia, intending to solve an ethnographic mystery. Then a graduate...More

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nytimes.com | Article Link | by Vindu Goel

Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of s...More

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mashable.com | Article Link | by Simon Powers

For hundreds of thousands of years humans lived in hunter-gatherer societies, eating wild plants and animals. Inequality in these groups is thought...More