Helen Lewis: The Dark Side of Genius
In The Genius Myth, the journalist delivers a sharp, funny takedown of our obsession with "brilliant" men, showing that behind every so-called genius is a crowd and a big PR machine.
In The Genius Myth, the journalist delivers a sharp, funny takedown of our obsession with "brilliant" men, showing that behind every so-called genius is a crowd and a big PR machine.
Life is a decentralized, horizontal network, not merely a centralized, hierarchical tree.
The EconTalk host and Wild Problems author talks about the limits of cost-benefit analyses.
The host of EconTalk and author of Wild Problems says our biggest decisions don't submit to easy cost-benefit analyses.
"Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality" in Nature