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How a discipline lost interest in the people it was founded to understand.

Europe has fewer hot days yet leads in heat deaths per person. Only 20% of homes have air conditioning. Learn the data and reasons.

AI's risks stem not from rogue machines but from human incentives that consistently outpace regulation, oversight, and moral reflection.

Robert Trivers revolutionised our understanding of human nature-then lived out its contradictions. A tribute to a neglected genius.

Elon Musk eyes Moon city over Mars, but lacks carbon, water, nitrogen. Mars has ice, CO2 for life support. Why it's a mistake for SpaceX.

How US-driven pressure replaced "women" and "mothers" with confusing terms in global healthcare without evidence of safety or effectiveness.

A software engineer rebuts AI apocalypse claims, arguing that cheaper code will unleash demand - just as cheap cloth multiplied textile jobs.

Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa was demolished by Derek Freeman's evidence, yet her culture-first ideology still dominates anthropology.

By firing experts, cancelling important research funding, and promoting conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. threatens to undermine some of America's most important public health achievements.

The Chief Chess Officer of Chess.com describes the crisis he confronted when Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen lost a tournament match to a...