Macat·Jul 28, 2016Artificial Intelligence and the morality minefieldImagine yourself in a car powered by the latest super-smart artificial intelligence (A.I.). Three pedestrians recklessly burst onto the…
Macat·Jul 11, 2016WHAT BREXIT, PLATO AND BOATY MCBOATFACE CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT DEMOCRACYAs Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council knows, strange and wonderful things can happen when the general public is asked to make…
Macat·Jun 10, 2016Are terrorists ‘evil’? Philip Zimbardo and the darkness within us allOn November 13th 2015, Omar Ismael Mostefai detonated an explosive belt at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, killing 89 people. The French…
Macat·Apr 18, 2016Understanding terrorism with Nietzsche, Kissinger and 4 other great thinkersAn 11-year-old boy who pleaded with his mother to take him to the park, killed by a suicide bomber who detonated just yards from a set of…
InLearn Deeper, Think SmarterbyMacat·Mar 15, 2016BERNIE SANDERS — THE FIRST SOCIALIST US PRESIDENT?By Susan Roth Breitzer, Ph.D.
InLearn Deeper, Think SmarterbyMacat·Mar 8, 2016What 4 female writers of the past can teach us about the future of feminismMarch 8th is International Women’s Day, when global attentions will focus on the achievements of women, and the steps that still need to be…
InLearn Deeper, Think SmarterbyMacat·Mar 4, 2016How capitalism and human rights can explain the zika panicThere are few things more terrifying than an epidemic unfolding in real time, when the true cause of a disease is still unknown, and before…
InLearn Deeper, Think SmarterbyMacat·Mar 3, 2016How to win the presidency: 5 tips from Plato, Aristotle, and other great thinkersAmidst the frenzy leading up to Super Tuesday, when eleven U.S. states hold primaries in a single day, we turned to some of history’s…
InLearn Deeper, Think SmarterbyMacat·Mar 2, 2016What Plato, Sun Tzu, and 5 Other Geniuses Can Teach You About Being a Great LeaderWhen setting out into the world with an exciting, disruptive idea, it’s easy to forget that once the idea works you have to run the…
InMiddle of Nowhere, Center of EverythingbyMacat·Mar 1, 2016Super Tuesday: Tocqueville’s democratic dream… or nightmare?By Vanessa Burrows, Ph.D., guest contributor
