Enlarge Between 125,000 and 70,000 years ago, people began to do some very modern things: collecting small objects for no practical reason, decorating things with pigments, and storing water and possibly even food in containers. The oldest known sites with evidence of those behaviors are along the coastline of southern Africa. Today, most of those […]
Enlarge (credit: Lewis Ogden / Flickr) We don’t need a study to know that misinformation is rampant on social media; we just need to do a search for “vaccines” or “climate change” to confirm that. A more compelling question is why. It’s clear that, at a minimum, there are contributions from organized disinformation campaigns, rampant […]
Tailgates, gameday traffic, long restroom lines, and tens of thousands of people packed in stands sound crazy right now. And it should. But we could be living in a completely different world by September. Read more…
Free agent quarterback Cam Newton got into a back and forth with a heckler this weekend at what seems to be a football camp. Read more…
In the most exciting play of the game tonight while the Chiefs offense was on the field, a fan, who probably bet his own prop about a fan running on the field… ran on the field. The odds were +800. CBS did their best to cut away from the fan, but luckily, we have fan […]
Enlarge / January 7, 2021 – St. Paul, Minn. — Trump supporters gather at the Minnesota Governor’s Residence after a “Storm The Capitol” event at the Minnesota State Capitol. (credit: Chad Davis / Flickr) Motivated reasoning is the idea that our mental processes often cause us to filter the evidence we accept based on whether […]
Should you’feel lonely this Thanksgiving, also needing for human touch, don’t ignore exactly what your mind and heart are telling you that. The analysis might only shed some light to the occurrence of lockdown exhaustion –that’s, why, by way of instance, many Americans have been keen to dismiss recommendations from the Centers from Disease Control […]
Enlarge / Women in traditional Mosuo clothing. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) In most societies, there are very easy to quantify differences between men and women. Women tend to live longer but earn less, for example. Historically, there has been a strong tendency to ascribe those differences to biology. But most societies treat women very differently, making […]