Children are natural psychologists and by the time they reach preschool they understand that other people have desires, preferences, beliefs, and emotions too. Exactly how they learn this isn't clear…

Research presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association had a surprising finding for women and careers - women who are economically dependent on a man are less likely to…

If you want to really get back to nature, it still involves meat.  A team of researchers has discovered evidence that human ancestors were using stone tools and consuming the meat and marrow of…

In a classic experiment known as the Ultimatum Game, person A is given 10 coins to split between himself and person B. If person B accepts the distribution, they both keep the coins; if not, no one…

There have been a lot of good articles lately in the dealing with the Underground Railroad. Recently, Timbuctoo was recovered in New Jersey by Temple U. and is currently under extensive survey. It’s…

I have a theory (not like a science theory… more like a personal theory) about patriarchies (male led cultures) – they don’t exist. I suppose, on the face of it, many human cultures appear to be…

True or false: The cinema was invented in the late 19th century. It's only true if you consider the cinema to be artificial projection.   It turns out that the original idea behind the cinematic…

Meet Lucy's 'great-grandfather'.   Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Addis Ababa University and Berkeley…

Rather than hijack Eric Diaz' excellent recent post with lengthy and tangential comments, I'll post my thoughts about the roots of war here. Machines, Organizations&Us is a column on human-…

What one wants to say what one really says and what one wants to hear and what other person really says ? With civilization covering our bodies with clothes in different parts of the world our ideas…