Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 3 conditions for stupidity that destroys societies: outsourcing your thinking to an authority, willful ignorance, and conformity Continue

How Polygamy Shaped Who We Are. A history of multiple mating plays out in our modern world in all kinds of ways. Continue

Many LA wildfire survivors are united against ‘predatory developers,’ who they say are exploiting vulnerable residents and changing their communities. Lawmakers are trying to balance the need to build with protections for homeowners. Continue

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy Continue

Has NASA already found life on Mars? In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us Continue

A new Gallup poll suggests that kindness is common, though younger Americans see and offer kindness less often than older Americans Continue

Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you? Investigation finds evidence of distinct groups, from big-picture thinkers to those who sweat the small stuff. Continue

Xavier Becerra, the gubernatorial frontrunner, will fundraise for a new effort to defeat a state voter ID initiative Continue

Pain may be what the brain makes of a signal, but somewhere, there is a signal. If  the signal can be stopped, so can the pain Continue