To make intelligent decisions about the future of energy, we need to think big-picture—to look carefully at the benefits and costs to human life of every course of action. Unfortunately, in today’s ...

Giant sequoia redwood trees grow very tall. Bradford pear trees, not so much. It's all in the genes. But there’s no genetic code for a business. While a Bradford pear can’t decide to compete with a ...

Getting metrics right is essential to effective IT management, but getting them wrong is worse than not having them at all It was an excellent help desk. Then, my correspondent explained, his CIO, ...

* Among Charles Darwin’s lasting legacies is our knowledge that the human mind evolved by some adaptive process. * A major, widely discussed branch of evolutionary psychology—Pop EP—holds that the ...

Certified health and nutrition coach Lori Zabka talked about how to get past mistaken beliefs that can hinder health goals. For more information, or to read Lori’s blog, “Four Fallacies That Hinder ...

It pains this old logic professor to read university officials’ arguments against divesting their institutions of investments in fossil fuels, not because their refusal to divest is wrong-headed, ...

What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...