'Everyone's A Star!' is "the most 'us' we've ever sounded,' according to 5SOS. By Lars Brandle Time flies at a frightening pace. Need a reminder? 5 Seconds of Summer’s self-titled debut is more than a ...

Steven Pinker illustrates the main idea of his latest popular science book with a joke from the Soviet Union. A political dissident stands in a Moscow train station, handing out leaflets to passersby.

Let us begin with a few simple propositions: (1) I know that the Harvard cognitive scientist and noted anti-wokeness crusader Steven Pinker has written a wan and blinkered book about the nature of ...

The everyday meaning of “common knowledge” is knowledge held in common, often as an open secret. For example, it is common knowledge that publishers like books that seek, via quirky examples, to ...

The Harvard psychologist on unwritten rules, social contracts, shared logic – and what happens when they fall apart Knots, RD Laing’s 1970 book, was a collection of short dialogues illustrating the ...

The byzantine world of artificial intelligence often looks, from the outside, like an arcane religion, one with its own priests and worshipers. Devotees give their lives over to the dictates of their ...

If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them? What if I told you I could stop you worrying about climate change, and all you had to do ...

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Dennis Duncan teaches ...

Before boarding a flight to South Africa in 2013, Justine Sacco sent a sardonic joke to her 170 Twitter followers: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding—I’m white!” By the time her ...

Not everyone has wisdom teeth, which usually develop fully at the back of the mouth between the ages of 18 and 24 years. Various factors can result in a lack of wisdom teeth, including genetics and ...