Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention..

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting ….

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error..

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing ….

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to….

I much prefer the modern world..

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen..

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family..

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment..

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than….

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantag….

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families..

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and end….

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors..

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies..

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them..

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience..

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some we….

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies..

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as presi….

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind..