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Morality

Why We Love to Pry Into the Sex Lives of Others

Why do we care so much about the sex other people are having that we…

Michael Price
December 26, 2014

Education

Why Best Practices Don’t Spread

In 2009, the Binghamton City School District asked me to help design a “school within…

David Sloan Wilson
July 3, 2014

Education

Taming The Autonomous Learner

This paper addresses a broad and fundamental question: Is culture transmitted to or acquired by…

eiadminMay 22, 2014

Education

Evolutionary Educational Psychology as a Base for Instructional Design

While it is intuitively plausible that teaching skills should be useful, evidence that they are…

eiadminMay 8, 2014

Environment

The Future Looks Good For Citizen Science

Public participation in science, or citizen science, is finding a foothold in all branches of…

Rafe Sagarin
May 1, 2014

Religion

Homo Religiosus

Some years ago, I approached my upcoming supervisor in Germany with a dissertation project exploring…

Michael Blume
April 26, 2014

EducationEnvironmentMindTechnology

Books are Maps of Nature, Screens are Maps of Nothing

Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.

Rafe Sagarin
February 7, 2014

Religion

Trustworthy People Are Seen As More Similar To Ourselves

We trust people based as much on how they look, how similar to us, than…

tvolimportJanuary 11, 2014

Politics

War Arose Recently, Anthropologists Contend

A battle has broken out among scientists trying to untangle the origins of war.

tvolimportJuly 25, 2013

Politics

Let’s Shake Up The Social Sciences

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity…

tvolimportJuly 25, 2013