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“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.”
Steven Pinker writes in Nautilus: Psychology...
Adam Gopnik reviews some of the books that celebrate or censure the Internet, and considers what omnipresent information is doing to our minds.
Professors Leda Cosmides, Tanya Atwater and Nelson Lichtenstein have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a 243 year-old institution
Human nature is a paradox. On the one hand, thanks to our evolution in the five million years since we left the jungle, we are a highly social species. On the other hand, as the last centuries show only too well, we can be truly hateful towards our fellow human beings—on a group level, war, and on an individual level, prejudice.