It twists and turns for 64 km from the Bolivian town of La Paz to Corioco. The locals call it the road of death. That’s not a joke: that’s simply a statement of fact. This mountain road claims over 200 lives a year.
It’s become a tourist attraction of sorts due to the danger factor. Why?
Our comfortable, safe [...]
What happened to the Neanderthals? We ate them.
The argument between meat-eaters and vegans misses the point: humans have evolved to eat cooked food.
Evolution was an idea whose time had come, with or without Charles Darwin.
“Competitive selection” is misunderstood. Natural selection doesn’t have to be a baret-toothed fight between species to see who is the most [...]
Simply mentioning the concept of “g”, or general intelligence, in some university faculties causes mouths to froth and eyes to roll uncontrollably in their sockets. “Intelligence is a social construct!” they wail, waving dog-eared copies of Gould’s “The Mismeasure of Man” around like crucifixes at a vampire.
There are myriad ways of obscuring the [...]
Question: Our societies are built on cooperation, mutual trust, and social networks. That’s hardly the law of the jungle. So how did we get that way? Why are we monogomous, pro-social, empathic creatures? Why did altruism evolve in humans?
Answer: (one answer, at least) So that soldiers would willingly go off to war.
Human nature is generally to be optimistic.
Despite calamities from economic recessions, wars and famine to a flu epidemic afflicting the Earth, a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup indicates that humans are by nature optimistic.
Of course, that’s not true for everyone.