Seeking Human Generosity’s Origins in an Ape’s Gift to Another Ape
By Carl Zimmer The New York Times How generous is an ape? It’s a hard question for scientists to tackle, but the answer could tell us a lot about ourselves. […]
Category Archives: LAW
If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand it Differently?
By Rebecca Wilbanks Aeon What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, argued the […]
Filling the Gaps in Space Traffic Management
By Mick Gleason & Travis Cottom Politico If you had to manage a large and growing traffic jam, where would you start? On June 18, 2018, the White House released […]
The Terrifying Privacy Policies of DNA Testing Companies
By Kristin V. Brown Gizmodo You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was going to be used, right? […]
Criminal Justice in a World Without Free Will
By James Flynn Brown Political Review Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center […]
Was Trial by Ordeal an Effective Test of Guilt?
By Peter T. Leeson Aeon The quest for criminal justice is fraught with uncertainty. Did the defendant commit the crime, or is he a victim of incriminating circumstances? Is he […]
The Rise of “Self-Marriage”
By Polina Aronson Aeon This summer I got married for the second time. Unlike my first wedding, in a town hall 11 years ago, this one was strictly informal. The […]
