The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by David Dobbs
The compulsion to see what lies beyond that far ridge or that ocean is a defining part of human identity and success.
by David Dobbs
A couple years ago David Pizarro, a young research psychologist at Cornell, brewed up a devious variation on the classic trolley problem. The trolley problem is that staple of moral psychology studies in which you ask someone to decide under what conditions it’s morally permissible to kill one person to save others…
By David Dobbs
Genes that create dysfunction in unfavorable contexts can also enhance function in favorable contexts. Genetic sensitivities to negative experience may be the downside of a bigger phenomenon: a heightened genetic sensitivity to all experience.
by David Dobbs
Librarians at the University of California system balked when the Nature Publishing Group raised the price of the scores of journals the huge library system subscribes to over $17,000 per journal. The librarians objected that it was ludicrous for universities to fund research and then pay to read it.
by David Dobbs
Moody. Impulsive. Maddening. Why do teenagers act the way they do? Viewed through the eyes of evolution, their most exasperating traits may be the key to success as adults.
