A Loud Minority Is Warping How We See Each Other Online
You leave an hour of doomscrolling convinced the country is splintering. Outside, a neighbor you disagree with politically helps you…
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Smart, calm, and distant? Rethinking empathy and IQ
In a crisis, the smartest person in the room often looks calm. Is that cool head a lack of feeling,…
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LLMs Are Easy To Trick. In Medicine, That Can Be Deadly.
LLMs Are Easy To Trick. In Medicine, That Can Be Deadly. A famous drug disaster is back as a test…
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Testosterone reshapes men’s attraction and their sense of fairness
The lab is quiet until the faces appear. One after another, women’s portraits flash on the screen. A group of…
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Turn Off an Eye, Teach the Brain to See
What if the way to help a weak eye is to switch it off, briefly, then let the brain reintroduce…
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The brain doesn’t finish at 25. Policy should stop.
Policy loves round numbers. Biology does not. The neatest myth in modern drug debates is that brains “finish” at 25….
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The viral “chonk” polar bear is a climate parable
The whale was already dead when the polar bear found it. The photos that followed — a colossal bear, cheeks…
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Why Slippery Slope Arguments Stick, and Who Buys Them
It starts with a small exception, a harmless tweak. Then someone says, if we allow this today, what will we…
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AI Helps You Write Faster, But Teaches You Less
The cursor blinks. A chat box on the left, a draft on the right. Ideas flow, phrasing improves, citations appear…
