The Scientific Fundamentalist

The three men I admire most [are] Paul Shaffer, Robin Williams, and Dave Barry. To this short list must now be added Steven Pinker. Read More

"The internet is the repository of all human garbage. It's the worst place in the world." Tina Fey Read More

A new book explains why conservative policies are more likely to succeed than liberal policies. Read More

Now I have found my own Allie.... Read More

As it turns out, humans possess the ability to tell who's a criminal and who's not simply by looking at them because criminals look different from noncriminals. Read More

There is at least one contradiction in Superfreakonomics. Read More

The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees the right of every American citizen to own and operate their own nuclear weapons. Read More

Not only are more intelligent individuals more likely to consume more alcohol more frequently, they are more likely to engage in binge drinking and to get drunk. Read More

One of the first questions that journalists and other civilians often ask me when I describe my repeated findings that beautiful people have more daughters is “So why do Posh and Becks have three sons?” Such questions, while understandable at some level, nonetheless betray ignorance of the danger of relying on manwho statistics, in other words, anecdotes. Read More

Physically more attractive parents are more likely to have daughters than physically less attractive parents, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Read More

I have a magic solution for our current problem of national deficit. I can more than double the individual tax revenue for the government while at the same time reducing the tax burden of the average taxpayer. How is that mathematically possible? Read More

My friend and fellow evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban has a blog at Evolutionary Psychology. Read More

Sometimes scientists can learn an important lesson from politicians. Read More

A company in Boston, AdelaVoice, has invented a smart-phone application called StartTalking that allows drivers to send and receive text messages while driving. Unfortunately, however, such a hands-free texting device will not reduce the likelihood of an accident while texting. Read More