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Bozo Sapiens

Exploring how our cognitive, logical, and romantic failures are a fair price for our extraordinary success as a species.

by Michael Kaplan

Michael Kaplan writes about chance, fate, probability and error. He is the author of Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human. See full bio

November 16, 2009

Facing Up to the Other

Why you are right to hate the Pirese. Read More

October 13, 2009

Signs and Portents: the Miracle of the Sun

70,000 people (and the Pope) saw it; so must it be true? Read More

October 9, 2009

Goggling at the Box

Why there is no such thing as "educational television." Read More

October 2, 2009

Secret Conspiracy Revealed!

The man on the grassy knoll: what makes us suckers for conspiracy? Read More

September 25, 2009

Pilgrim's Progress: One Man's Lost Battle with Authority

One man's battle with City Hall shows how human nature itself leads to an oppressive State. Read More

September 21, 2009

To College with Lord Chesterfield

Dropping our only son off at college, I struggled for the perfect piece of essential advice, the ideal nudge that would somehow set his lone trajectory from this moment forward in exactly the right direction. I failed. Read More

September 20, 2009

Message from a Bomber

What can we learn from a "mad bomber?" Read More

September 14, 2009

Holy Places, Profane Practices

It's who you keep out that makes a place special. Read More

August 28, 2009

!00% Unamerican!

What does it mean to be American? Let's ask Congress! Read More

August 21, 2009

Monsters from the Deep

Beasts of the imagination: why we see animals everywhere. Read More

Evolutionary Psychology Basics

Our bodies evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of our ancestors lived and died. So, too, did our brains. Evolutionary psychology postulates that the mind is shaped by pressure to survive and reproduce. We jealously guard romantic partners and cherish our closest relatives above all others, lest we fail to pass on our genes.

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