The June/July 2007 issue of Scientific American Mind presents in article by David G. Myers entitled "The Powers and Perils of Intuition." (this particular article is not available online except to subscribers). The starting point for many articles on intuition is the work Kahneman and Tversky, who explored shortcuts we…
The October 2007 edition of The Atlantic presents an article by Henry Blodget entitled "The Conscientious Investor." It is an in-depth discussion of what it means to engage in "socially responsible investing," or SRI. Up front, he makes the point that virtuous investing "can cost you." To illustrate, if you…
What follows is an excerpt from an article from Salon.com entitled "Breaking the Iraq Stalemate." Trapped by reality, Bush can no longer use his time-tested rhetoric to rally America. Instead, he is forced to contradict his own grand ideological claims. His pathetic speech last week was a preview of what…
One of the things that sends me straight up a wall to paw helplessly and violently at ceilings comprised of crushed glass, old nails, and asbestos fibers is when I hear a young woman blithely claim that she isn’t a Feminist and, in fact, “wouldn’t want to be one.” They…
National Geographic's Genographic Project offers all of us an extraordinary opportunity: a method of tracing each of our family trees back to our African roots. Yes, each of us is African. An ever-growing collection of DNA studies unambiguously demonstrate that each of us had ancestors who lived in Africa more…