We’ve all been there– stop dead traffic on the highway that pops up for no good reason, a braking SUV that you can’t see around, cars spread out in an evenly spaced distribution on a 3 lane highway. If more people followed these 3 unselfish rules then everyone could selfishly get to where they want [...]

Interesting article on research supporting the idea that morality — decisions based on empathy — are hard-wired to the brain. Further work in this area should help address the relative contributions of ‘nature vs nurture’ in decisions based on moral conflicts. Some of the original research can be read about here.
Life is one big [...]

No I’m not talking about the state of affairs right now in which our politicians on both sides seem to release “declassified” intelligence information each day arguing whether our case for the war was/is strong or not.
I’m talking about the opening of the Creation museum in Petersburg, Ky. The intriguing question here is not [...]

This following article describes how our economic system is not the only idea being exported around the world.
Link to Economist story
A link to reader comments on the above article, including my own is here.