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- I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.
- I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.
- Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.
- Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the…
- An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar…
- Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or…
- Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions…
- For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented…
- I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I…
- If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what…
- People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me…
- Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter…
- Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know…
- The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian…
- Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are…
- Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance,…
- We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in…
- Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this…
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