We’re born to be wild
Beyond the boundaries of civilisation: Landmark study shows lab rats revert to survival mode within hours when set free. Is it the same for humans?
Culture & Behavior
Is Truth Enough? – The Bush Administration’s Lies and the Anti-War Movement’s Truths
A transcription of a talk given to the “Truth and Consequences” Anti-War Forum at the University of Maine, Augusta, Maine, on March 20, 2004.
The First Law of Psychology is the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Abstract
Entropy is the primary adaptive problem that life forms must solve; consequently, evolutionary processes have crafted intelligence systems that are fundamentally designed to acquire, manage and direct energetic resources toward the maintenance of life processes and the attainment of life-stage specific goals.
Human brain “paid off” by long life
Children in modern day hunter-gatherer societies consume more calories than they produce, accumulating an enormous debt that peaks at age 20.
New Kazakh civic coalition to ensure greater transparency in oil sector
A newly established group of NGOs to promote civic control over Kazakhstan’s burgeoning oil industry aimed at more transparency of the revenues the Kazakh government receives and how they are spent — information closed even to members of parliament.