The Examined Life

[...] While the US has the highest rate of gun ownership of any country in the world, gun ownership and gun control legislation are deeply divisive issues among Americans. Some take pride in [...]

[...] is, quite simply, that unless these fossil fuel companies are stopped, they will destroy human civilization. More recently a documentary has been made to highlight and publicize the thesis of the [...]

[...] into the public consciousness, has yet to do anything to reverse the destructive path that human civilization is on. There are perhaps many reasons for this, but the crux of the matter is corporate [...]

[...] -induced climate change is real and that it poses a serious challenge to the future of human civilization and the existence of many other plant and animal species on this planet. However, [...]

[...] is left with seems to be this: the environment on the planet Earth is becoming unfit for human civilization at the same point in history that machines are surpassing humans in intelligence and every [...]

[...] researchers have found in experimental conditions. Among the most important or most common cognitive biases on the list are the following: Availability cascade: A self-reinforcing process in which a [...]

[...] this informative and also humorous TED lecture, Allesandro Acquisti, a researcher on the behavioural economics of privacy, talks about the current state of privacy online and why we should care about [...]

[...] . These researchers come from the fields of cognitive and social psychology, behavioural economics, behavioural ethics, and experimental philosophy. And just as the research in this [...]

[...] firearm ownership and age-adjusted firearm homicide rates at the state level. The results of the study are as follows: Gun ownership was a [...]