May 31, 2020
Increasingly, I am gaining more insight to our economic and political problems from science books than I do from books on economics or political theory. I was started on this journey by Daniel Kahneman's book, Thinking, Fast and Slow that led to additional books on behavioral economics. I followed up by reading Jonathan...
May 25, 2020
Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham theorizes in his new book, the Goodness Paradox, that Homo sapiens (us) is a domesticated species and, lacking ancient aliens as seen on the History channel or divine intervention, that we are self-domesticated. He believes that the domestication process was accomplished by our...
May 7, 2020
The author of a book about how the physical brain creates consciousness was explaining how brain architecture strives to make the brain robust rather than efficient. The efficient brain can outperform the robust brain within certain parameters but cannot survive outside those narrow limits. Evolution favors systems...