Scientific Sense

A new study (1) demonstrates that there are significant common factors that influenced the evolution of past societies. One clear and obvi...

A recent article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (1) proposes that " class is inversely related to a propensity for using w...

As the thousand people in Washington, whose healthcare is covered for life, figure out how many millions they would like to deny the same...

It appears that complexity is increasing in every field. Past experience tells us that knowledge only arrived by simplification, the exact...

News that NASA engineers have been successful in firing the trajectory correction maneuver thrusters on Voyager 1, some 13 billion miles a...

Humans, inconsistent, unstable and biased, have been ill-equipped to make optimal policy choices. In the modern era, rich with dynamic dat...

As the administration after mammoth efforts to take millions off healthcare, promote big game hunting in Africa, accelerate environmental ...

In my book Flexibility (1) I argued 8 years ago that men should not be in positions of complex policymaking. Trained to hunt and gather fo...