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    Psychology

    The Problem with the Way Scientists Study Reason

    They overly rely on logic and philosophy, and neglect psychology’s more natural ally: biology.

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    Psychology

    Nurture Alone Can’t Explain Male Aggression

    A young bank teller is shot dead during a robbery. The robber flees in a stolen van and is chased down the motorway by a convoy of police cars. Careening through traffic, the robber runs several cars off the road and clips several more. Eventually, the robber pulls off the motorway and attempts to escape […]

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    Physics

    Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion

    Getting human feeling to match the math is an ultimate goal in physics.

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    History

    Most Tech Today Would be Frivolous to Ancient Scientists

    The tech that most people depend on must appeal to our fears and vanities and must require continuous and rapid overturn. If it were truly necessary, the market would demand durability.Wikicommons Surrounded by advanced achievements in medicine, space exploration, and robotics, people can be forgiven for thinking our time boasts the best technology. So I […]

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    Physics

    When Beauty Gets in the Way of Science

    Insisting that new ideas must be beautiful blocks progress in particle physics.

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    Microbiology

    Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Social organisms come in all shapes and sizes, from the obviously gregarious ones like mammals and birds down to the more cryptic socializers like bacteria. Evolutionary biologists often puzzle over altruistic behaviors among them, because self-sacrificing individuals would at first seem to be at a severe disadvantage under […]