Human Nature

Will the real Perp please stand up!

During his recent visit to the States, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the priest sex scandal of the U.S. Catholic Church and pointed out that the moral breakdown of society is at least partly to blame. Pedophilia, he argued, is a symptom of overall decrepit sexual mores.

Indeed, it is not as though the moral code of [...]

His and Her Brain

It has been revealed, the male brain! I am particularly astonished by the size of the toilet aiming cell and the listening particle. Are they really that big? And why are there two separate areas for sex? For comparison, here is the female brain. It is interesting that the need for commitment hemisphere and the [...]

Who said reading Philosophy is boring?

I don’t. And in case you are trying to skip those dreaded footnotes, think again. You may be missing out. Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents contains some of the most hilarious footnotes of all time. To sample, here is one on the control of fire.
“If we go back far enough, we find that the [...]