Tackling the ethics of infinity, being clueless about the effects of our actions, and having moral empathy for intellectual adversaries, with philosopher Dr Amanda Askell
In the 50s, a newspaper columnist chastised Marilyn Monroe for wearing a low-cut dress, saying she was cheap and vulgar and that she would look better in a potato sack. 20th Century Fox then shot stills of Marilyn in a form fitting burlap potato sack: the result is marvelous
Brain volume may be tied to emotionally protective traits - A new study finds that people with larger volumes in the prefrontal cortical brain regions may be more likely to have greater personality traits such as optimism that can protect against emotional distress.
Society favours the educated, but misguided ideas of what constitutes intelligence undermines the ideals of a meritocracy, argues philosopher Angie Hobbs
Plants communicate distress using their own kind of nervous system. Plant biologists have discovered that when a leaf gets eaten, it warns other leaves by using some of the same signals as animals