By Marjorie Hecht Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other scientists have studied for decades, developing a series of new hypotheses about learning and experiments to test them. The concept of prepared […]
Is Politics All in the Mind?
Political partisanship has a neurobiological basis, a new study shows. It is predicted by the way our brains process basic political words or concepts.
Give Peace a Chance: Don’t Believe the War Profiteers
No, the spoils will go to our massive and multifaceted war machine. The war machine is comprised of companies controlled by the 1%.