Cognitive Science

• Evidence shows that gender is fluid, but our brains automatically see them as discrete things.  Apply this to other fields as well.

Culture

• The story of the Ermahgerd girl.

Death

• The Ethics of Suicide Digital Archive.

Economics

• My hometown, Ogden, UT is part of a featured story as a pathway toward economic equality.  (It probably should’ve said economic fairness.)

Education

• Having school four days a week is better for students (and teachers) academically.
• Should you go to grad school?
• Where did college go wrong?  A discussion about whether we are coddling students from “puppy days” to trigger warnings.

Free Will

• Does disbelieve in free will cause more anti-social behavior?

Guns

• Did Hitler take away guns?  Could the Jews have stopped Hitler?  Jack Russell argues no.

Health

• Man walks again after years of paralysis. 

Politics

• An engineer explains why the wall that Donald Trump wants to build across the Mexican-US border is extremely implausible.

Poverty

• Using empirical data, a sociologist has a solution to end child poverty: using a sliding scale tax rate.

Race

• Was Gandhi a racist?
• An alternative to reparations: give blacks 5/3 of a vote.

Relationships

• What do people find “essential” and “desirable” in relationships?

Religion

• The Westboro Baptist Church is going to picket Kim Davis’s workplace because she isn’t a “real Christian.”

Sexuality

• Men who buy sex have a lot in common with sexually coercive men.