Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

Disgust is intuitive microbiology

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

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

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.