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Jonathan Haidt analyzes the shortcomings of human reasoning and bets $10,000 that Harris will not be swayed by reason alone.The New Atheist Sam Harris recently offered to pay $10,000 to anyone who can disprove his arguments about morality. Jonathan Haidt analyzes the nature of reasoning, and the ease with which reason becomes a servant of the passions. He bets $10,000 that Harris will not change his mind.

Dental fossils of the newly discovered large lizard <em>Barbaturex morrisoni</em> were found in the Pondaung Formation in central Myanmar.

Why business? What does evolution have to contribute to the study or conduct of business?Welcome to the new business section of This View of Life. My name is Jon Haidt, and I’m a social psychologist and professor of business ethics at the NYU-Stern School of Business.

From studying the nearby ocean sediments, scientists concluded that West Antarctica could have been hundreds of meters higher in elevation than it is today.

Things that look as though they took ages to design and create just happen.

Humans are creating totally new environments compared to what animals have seen in evolutionary history.

We are not biologically identical to our Paleolithic predecessors, nor do we have access to the foods they ate.

The relationship between risky environments and life history.

When unbridled competition is clearly inefficient and how more competition is not always a good thing.I explains how private contracts and limited competition have been treated as presumptively illegal under the anti-trust laws which implicitly rest on the premise that more competition is always a good thing. Yet in many cases, unbridled competition is clearly inefficient.

A new dinosaur find is shedding light on the history of bone-headed dinosaurs, while at the same time reminding scientists of the shortcomings of the fossil record.