Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.