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April 29, 2012

Who Is More Phobic About Science—Conservatives or Liberals?

The answer might surprise you.....

July 23, 2012

Punishing Cheaters: Are We the Dark Knight—Or Just Dark?

If you could confront the pickpocket who ripped you off in the subway, would you simply demand your wallet back, or would you seek vengeance?

September 4, 2012

Aspiration Makes Us Human

Our drive to exceed our evolutionary limits sets us apart from other beasts

February 2, 2013

Is Scientific Genius Extinct? One Expert Thinks So

Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo or Charles Darwin, he argues.

September 6, 2016

Excerpt from Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

Citizen science is about regular people contributing to scientific discovery. Today’s burgeoning citizen science movement is aided and abetted by smartphone apps that precisely geolocate species observations. This “big data” citizen science is at the forefront of scientific methodologies today, but the roots of citizen science, and its basic purpose, hail back to Enlightenment impulses to understand God’s creation.