the mind is a neural computer

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.