But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.