Science

Women often get a lot of bad press for ‘perceived’ sexual promiscuity. Even wearing the wrong dress can get a...

Quieting the ego is one of the fundamental and more widely professed goals of nearly all spiritual disciplines. The more...

The ‘mirror test’ is the gold standard for the measurement of self-awareness in animals. After secretly placing a mark (usually...

Politics is a welcome intruder in many of our lives. In fact, we may be living in a time where...

If giraffes grew their necks longer with sheer will power (as Lamarck hypothesized), they would still have had to deal...

It is widely believed that Intelligence in humans was augmented through sexual selection. Intelligence is a much sought-after trait in...

Eye colour depends on the relative abundance of two kinds of melanin pigments – eumelanin and pheomelanin in the iris....

People get caught with their pants down (literally) all the time. Adultery is ubiquitous in human societies. It is estimated...

Research in the field of positive psychology suggests that chit-chat makes people happier. Despite its benefits to well-being, people struggle...

We are better at giving advice to a friend than we are to ourselves. This age old idea is called...