Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over, think about a suite […]
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We describe the world using language — we can’t help it. And we all know that ordinary language is an
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The United States is suffering from an epidemic of tragic gun violence. While a political debate rages around the topic
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The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from
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Advances in technology have gradually been extending the human self beyond its biological extent, as we augment who we are
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Being a human is tricky. There are any number of unwritten rules and social cues that we have to learn
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Human beings like to divide themselves into groups, and then cooperate, socialize, and reproduce with members of their own group.
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It’s pretty clear that our genes affect, though they don’t completely determine, who we grow up to be; children’s physical
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How human beings behave is, for fairly evident reasons, a topic of intense interest to human beings. And yet, not
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Neuroscience has given us great insights into how our brains work. But there is still room for purely humanistic disciplines
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