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Steven Pinker on Rationality: Why It Matters

Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding – and appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that doubled its lifespan, sequenced its genome, and developed vaccines for…

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL 1 Oct 2021 16 min read

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Gad Saad on Evolutionary Psychology, Meaning & Idea Pathogens

Research has shown that evolution has created the psychological mechanisms which have enabled, and emboldened the spread of faux-intellectual movements (anti-vaccination, climate-deniers) and which can explain most of our deep rooted preferences,…

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL 20 Mar 2019 19 min read