This View of Life
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Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and information chaos.

Given that morality is so important, you’d think we’d want to make sure that we were doing it right.Given that morality is so important, you’d think we’d want to make sure that we were doing it right. That is, you’d think that we would insist on knowing why we have the beliefs that we have, how those beliefs came into being, who they benefit, and where they are likely to lead us.

A recently discovered crocodile is the largest species yet known, and lived alongside ancient humans 3 million years ago.

"Why in the American system were the people who opposed the death penalty almost always the ones who believed that rich people should pay more in taxes?"

Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?

You Want Evidence that Religion is Bad for Our Species? OPEN YOUR EYES.

Perhaps no other surviving artifacts of human prehistory are cloaked in beauty and mystery quite like the cave paintings at Chauvet, Lascaux.

The role of third parties like the UN in resolving conflicts appears to have deep evolutionary roots.

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The National Institute of Health suspended all new grants for biomedicial research on chimps.

What does evolution have to do with racism and oppression of minority groups?