Category Archives: Biology

The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

From this 2025 book by smoking hot Cambridge University neuoroscience and politics professor Leor Zmigrod: I believe that we can judge an ideology based on what believing in it does to human bodies and brains; on whether being a passionate … Continue reading

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The Extraordinary Vision Of Aborigines

At 2:40 mark of this interview, philosopher Nathan Cofnas says: “As a visiting high school student at Columbia University which is where I eventually went to get my BA and I took an anthropology class on uh the evolution of … Continue reading

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Everybody wants to change the world

A few years ago, I developed the realization that every form of life wants to transform the world and that these efforts inevitably harm other forms of life, thus creating a war for survival. When I talked about this with … Continue reading

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2nd Edition: Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences

Here are some highlights from this 2024 book: * Democrats: Sweaty, disorderly, offhand, imaginative, tolerant, skillful at give – and – take Republicans: Respectable, sober, purposeful, self – righteous, cut – and – dried, boring (Clinton Rossiter) * the left … Continue reading

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What’s Normal? Reconciling Biology and Culture

Here are some highlights from this 2016 book by Allan V. Horwitz: * Contemporary developed societies are the safest, healthiest, and most prosperous that have ever existed, so we might expect that their citizens would have low levels of fearfulness. … Continue reading

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