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Recent high-profile media coverage has prompted public recognition that cannabis in particular forms can have beneficial medical effects for some conditions such as epilepsy. There are two main ...

In many public situations, we make judgments about people’s commitment to carry through on their stated views. Politicians express commitments to issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.

Most humans are grossed out by things like oozing sores or rotten meat, and there might well be an evolutionary basis for staying away from these harmful things. But it might go deeper: that disgust ...

It is an organization whose basic function is to periodically issue leftist tracts disguised as theological reflection. After what it calls the “catastrophe” of the American elections, the ...

Neoclassical economics assumes that we are all clearheaded and logical, able to make farsighted, rational calculations that maximize our utility. But behavioral economists have built a strong case ...

MORAL BASIS….Two cheers for Colin Powell: Powell lent his support to three Republican senators Thursday saying that Congress must not pass Bush’s proposal to redefine U.S. compliance with the Geneva ...

Allocating research grants based on past projects and potential profits is immoral – it skews research and damages the academic psyche. URBAN ARTefakte WHAT IS AUSTRALIA FOR? Australia is no longer ...