Development refers to a deliberate process of economic, social, political, and institutional transformation aimed at ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Federal law requires every prescription drug to include a document describing dosing guidelines, contraindications, results ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Leader character satisfies the criteria for competitive advantage - rare. valuable, difficult to imitate, organizationally embedded - whereas AI does not.

The Idaho Senate committee’s recent decision to advance a bill mandating sex-separated facilities in both government and ...

Richard Hanania is president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, which funds policy research. His Substack newsletter is at richardhanania.com.

Feb. 17, 2026, marks an exhilarating gallop into the Year of the Horse after a quiet, reflective Year of the Snake. But what ...

Research shows that people with an animal rights mindset preferred positive force-free training, while anthropocentrists ...

The Island has recently published various articles on AI, and they are thought-provoking. This article is based on a paper I presented at a London University seminar, 22 years ago. Will computers ever ...

When making decisions and judgments, humans can fall into common "traps," known as cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is ...

Meet The Researchers Who've Interviewed 130 Bigfoot Hunters. It was the image that launched a cultural icon. In 1967, in the ...