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If you speak too much to the immediate moment, it’s already moved on by the time your book is published.
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The author’s impulse to write stems from her feelings of social incompetence.
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Lionel Shriver’s career began after winning a writing contest about her school’s newly renovated cafeteria.
Here’s a story about balancing work and family, as recounted recently by Teddy Kennedy: One day in 1961 John F. Kennedy was comforting his crying daughter at the family’s Hyannis […]
Vinod Khosla, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures, is on record as having said that he can’t imagine oil being more than $30 a barrel by […]
Like many kids in the 80s, I was convinced I would die in a nuclear war. Dialogue between the United States and the Soviet Union had broken down after the […]
Via Gawker we learn that a New York judge reaffirmed a guy’s right to demand the ring back if the engagement breaks off for any reason. In the case before […]
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The state of the world and its social problems aren’t worth losing sleep over. As the evolutionary psychologist explains, just worry about your science.
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Intelligent people create novel solutions to problems—a fact that has resulted in a rich history of smart people picking up eccentric values and habits.
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Love was designed by evolution to compel us to engage in behavior that will spread our genes into the next generation. But divorce, far from a modern phenomenon, has also […]
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In a number of fundamental ways, human psychology hasn’t budged in a very long time.
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It turns out that you indeed can judge a book by its cover—nice people look nice and nasty people look nasty.
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There is a proven mathematical theorem for why dating and finding a job in a large urban area is difficult and frustrating.
Humans are, in a sense, hardwired to be conservative, and it requires a unique intelligence to acquire something as evolutionarily novel as liberalism.
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The evolutionary psychologist explains that attractive people tend to have girls, a trend that is making women far more attractive on average than men.
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The primary goal of life is reproductive success, a common bond that explains why, for scientists, artists, and even criminals, genius and discovery peak among the young and single.
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A conversation with the evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.
Insects have long been objects of fascination in classical literature, children’s nursery rhymes, and in the culture at large. Hugh Raffles’ interest in insects stemmed from his work in the Amazon, […]
An FBI Special Agent impersonated a representative of a real, legal anti health care reform group in order to positively identify a Washington man who allegedly left a series of […]