Social Sciences
Thursday Aug 30th, 2012
Unfit for the future: The urgent need for moral enhancement
For the vast majority of our 150,000 years or so on the planet, we lived in small, close-knit groups, working hard with primitive tools to scratch sufficient food and shelter from the land. Sometimes we competed with other small groups for limited resources. Thanks to evolution, we are supremely well adapted to that world, not only physically, but psychologically, socially and through our moral dispositions. But this is no longer the world in which… read more »
Tuesday Jan 22nd, 2013
Celebrating Piltdown
T. Douglas Price on how the hoax has improved the field of paleoanthropology
Friday Nov 23rd, 2012
Is spirituality a passing trend?
Philip Sheldrake looks at what spirituality means to each of us and how it has increased in popularity.
