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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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A conversation with the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center Professor.
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Business has a new responsibility to lead consumers in a sustainable direction.
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Oil is not the biggest challenge that we have in store over the next decade.
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In the wake of the financial crisis, Peter Brabeck argues that creating shareholder value is simply not enough to promote a green future.
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Is the sustainability discussion focused too heavily on a low carbon economy?
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Internet life tends to wrap us up in our own narrow interests and points of view. The “Bloggingheads” editor-in-chief believes that this can change.
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Much like road rage, a retribution-based foreign policy represents an evolutionary impulse poorly suited to the modern world.
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Failed strategy decisions have left the “Nonzero” author pessimistic about the outcome of the war on terror. What’s needed, he says, is a reprise of FDR’s “fear itself” speech.
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“Reconciliation is possible” between science and faith, though it will mean defining the latter by its moral truths and not its supernatural claims.
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The “Evolution of God” author weighs the argument that human moral progress might depend on abandoning religion.
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As people of different faiths find cooperation more beneficial than war, a kind of secular salvation may be possible.
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As Christianity progressed, Christ’s moral teachings became sanitized and polished. Robert Wright thinks that’s probably a good thing.
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As the “Evolution of God” author explains, the phenomenon called religion grew out of early human biology and strategy. But can we claim that certain faiths have “evolved” more since?
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Why is evolutionary psychology so popular, and what questions has it not yet answered?
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A conversation with the author of “The Evolution of God.”
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It is commonly said that we use only ten percent of our brain. The Rockefeller neuroscientist reveals this to be a misconception.
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From an evolutionary perspective, it makes far more sense to have sound capable of changing emotional states rather than vision or smell. Hence our hearing never really turns off, even […]
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Life’s events happen once and only once, meaning that we do not have defined categories for storing our experiences.
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Our ears do more than hear. They can sense when someone is stressed, relaxed, or angry, and they can recognize the shininess of bathroom walls.
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And all this time you thought you saw with your eyes. A mathematical physicist explains his research into how sound defines the world.