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Can Quantum Encryption Protect Your Data?
In our post-Snowden world, we can no longer deny what was always …
Selfies Haven’t Made Us Narcissists
A plethora of recent studies have delved into the effect social media …
Plastic Surgery in South Korea Keeps People Grinning
Gwynn Guilford reports over at Quartz that the latest trend to hit …
The Problems With Predicting a Child’s Future
To what extent can science predict the future? Both TIME Magazine and …
The Politics and the Science of Disputing Evolutionary Psychology
There’s a brawl going down on the internet over the validity of …
“Ethical” Stem Cells Bring Down Syndrome Breakthrough
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts medical school have reportedly made a …
The Temptation of Neuroscience
Undecided voters lay inside a sleek fMRI machine in late 2007. The …
You Need Some Sleep
Turns out, caffeine just doesn’t cut it.
Race/IQ Revised
Last year I published Race, IQ, and Wealth, presenting the overwhelming evidence that …
Did the Supreme Court Just Send Us to a Gattaca Future?
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced a 5-to-4 decision upholding the prerogative …
The Jobs … Still Not Forthcoming
Joel Kotkin makes a point about the tech economy that can’t be …
The Neo-Luddite Hour
The Buchanan-Hitchens interview that Dan posted brings back such a welter of …
Human Cloning Is Real, Here’s What You Need to Know
A scientific breakthrough raises many serious questions.
Race/IQ: The Jason Richwine Affair
Amid the fury over the ex-Heritage staffer’s work the question to ask is: was he right?
Race/IQ Revisited
For a combination of demographic and ideological reasons few topics in American …
Gay Germ Censorship
The notion of a Gay Germ—homosexuality transmitted as some sort of infection—probably …
Can Quantum Encryption Protect Your Data?
In our post-Snowden world, we can no longer deny what was always …
Selfies Haven’t Made Us Narcissists
A plethora of recent studies have delved into the effect social media …
Plastic Surgery in South Korea Keeps People Grinning
Gwynn Guilford reports over at Quartz that the latest trend to hit …
The Problems With Predicting a Child’s Future
To what extent can science predict the future? Both TIME Magazine and …
The Politics and the Science of Disputing Evolutionary Psychology
There’s a brawl going down on the internet over the validity of …
“Ethical” Stem Cells Bring Down Syndrome Breakthrough
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts medical school have reportedly made a …
The Temptation of Neuroscience
Undecided voters lay inside a sleek fMRI machine in late 2007. The …
You Need Some Sleep
Turns out, caffeine just doesn’t cut it.
Race/IQ Revised
Last year I published Race, IQ, and Wealth, presenting the overwhelming evidence that …
Did the Supreme Court Just Send Us to a Gattaca Future?
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced a 5-to-4 decision upholding the prerogative …
The Jobs … Still Not Forthcoming
Joel Kotkin makes a point about the tech economy that can’t be …
The Neo-Luddite Hour
The Buchanan-Hitchens interview that Dan posted brings back such a welter of …
Human Cloning Is Real, Here’s What You Need to Know
A scientific breakthrough raises many serious questions.
Race/IQ: The Jason Richwine Affair
Amid the fury over the ex-Heritage staffer’s work the question to ask is: was he right?
Race/IQ Revisited
For a combination of demographic and ideological reasons few topics in American …
Gay Germ Censorship
The notion of a Gay Germ—homosexuality transmitted as some sort of infection—probably …
