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Why Men Don’t Live as Long as Women
10/04/2017 - 12:41
Years ago when I was conducting my doctoral research on the evolutionary history of men among a remote indigenous community of hunter-... →
Self-defense against criticism
04/04/2017 - 12:54
Our fragile egos are partly to blame. We all want to meet our own expectations of ourselves, and so being critiqued – or even just the... →
Collective Narcissism
28/03/2017 - 12:29
A lot of us are familiar with the psychological construct of narcissism as applied to an individual: someone who is grandiose and... →
The Anatomy of Charisma
21/03/2017 - 11:56
Scientists have plenty to say about charisma. Individuals with charisma tap our unfettered emotions and can shut down our rational minds.... →
How to get people to overcome their bias
16/03/2017 - 13:48
Once you learn about this mental habit – called confirmation bias – you start seeing it everywhere. This matters when we... →
What is wisdom?
10/03/2017 - 15:28
Wisdom mustn’t be confused with intelligence. Although intelligence helps, you can be intelligent without being wise. The wise people... →
Alcohol in space
04/03/2017 - 14:41
Travelling thousands of miles above the Earth, into the great inky unknown, is hard work. It’s stressful and scary. So why shouldn’t... →
Fasting diet could slow aging
27/02/2017 - 18:38
“It’s not trivial to do this kind of study,” says circadian biologist Satchidananda Panda of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in... →
Why pain hard to measure
17/02/2017 - 15:57
One night in May, my wife sat up in bed and said, “I’ve got this awful pain just here.” She prodded her abdomen and made a face. “It feels... →
Nobody is normal
12/02/2017 - 13:03
This view still guides much of biomedical research; organisms, cells, gene networks and more are routinely perturbed to determine how these... →
How East and West think in profoundly different ways
02/02/2017 - 16:15
As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and... →
The mystery of the Tunguska meteorite
26/01/2017 - 12:09
What is known is this: on 20 June 1908, a large fireball crossed the sky above the taiga over the Stony Tunguska River, and a mega... →

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