The ancient history of Africa included great empires and many civilizations, but it was probably not the cradle of humanity, which came from modern humans leaving Eurasia and mixing with Denisovans in ...

Religions never give you proof. You have to take a leap of faith. If you had proof, you would no longer be obeying because ...

Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is ...

Means-over-ends thinking begins with this desire to morally/emotionally exclude certain methods because we fear them, like ...

The resurgence of the r-word is symptomatic of a graver problem — the “apparent death of empathy,” said Adrienne Massanari, ...

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...

It turns out that we can see this most clearly with AI/LLM, which is shaping us as much as we are shaping it. Specifically, ...

In Southern cities, people have a culture that emphasizes fairness including ensuring that your group does not get ...

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

The third world operates by a different system: every social institution is rotted, so you have warlords who dispense favors ...

When one is an outsider, openness leads to wanting to understand the other. Once one is inside the society, all the ...

A mono-ethnic society allows culture to predominate fully. “Culture” is always ill-defined, but basically means a set of ...