Science & Technology

In Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Dutch-American primatologist Frans de Waal brings history, philosophy, and science to bear on this pregnant question.

Goldacre outs many of the most heinous sources of misleading health-related claims and provides tools to understand and evaluate them.

Bad Blood is a story of good and evil—of liars who bury the truth and the people of intelligence and integrity who keep digging until they find and expose it.

Whereas others prioritized stickiness, Google prioritized relevance and reliability. Whereas others played the role of the clingy friend who tried to hold your attention, Google simply pointed you in the right direction.

Alex Epstein discusses Al Gore’s new “documentary,” An Inconvenient Sequel, and Gore’s methods of deception, which Epstein condenses into a few easily retainable and explainable fallacies.

If liberating a bulldozer’s dharma nature and returning it to the Earth strikes you as crazy, you’re not using your reptilian cortex.

College student Mark Coldren recounts his experience and reasons for donating stem cells to save the life of a man halfway around the globe.

For Bill Nye to beat Alex Epstein in a public debate about the morality of fossil fuels would be a huge coup for opponents of fossil fuels.

Republicans will not repeal Obamacare—but don't blame them; blame the moral code of altruism, in which the culture is steeped.

Daniel Wahl reviews A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, by Andrew Chaikin.