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  • Why Do We Like Being Scared?

    Why Do We Like Being Scared?0

    Fear may be as old as life on Earth. It is a fundamental, deeply wired reaction, evolved over the history of biology, to protect organisms against perceived threat to their integrity or existence. Fear may be as simple as a cringe of an antenna in a snail that is touched, or as complex as existential

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  • Why Do We Keep Underestimating Kids?

    Why Do We Keep Underestimating Kids?3

    Child protection laws and policies that determine at what age kids can do things on their own are often wildly out of whack with actual child development — and grossly underestimate kids’ capabilities. That’s not just ME saying that. (Even though I always do.) Now it’s all there in a comprehensive review just published in

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  • Why Do We Encourage Gender Specific Clothes for Transgender Kids, but Gender Neutral Clothes for Straight Kids?

    Why Do We Encourage Gender Specific Clothes for Transgender Kids, but Gender Neutral Clothes for Straight Kids?0

    For years, fashion industries have been trying to tell us what we should and should not wear. Hence, when the fashion industry decides it must market clothes that are PC, it stands to reason that the masses have no choice but to follow suit and dress accordingly. Such a scenario has most recently been on

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  • Why Do U.S. Schools Focus So Much on Self-Esteem?

    Why Do U.S. Schools Focus So Much on Self-Esteem?0

    When it comes to education, the U.S. system isn’t the one countries look to as a model to emulate. At least they shouldn’t, considering that the U.S. places 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math in international matchups. But according to The Atlantic, there is one country that is doing well in

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  • Why Do Trump and Sanders Have So Much Support?

    Why Do Trump and Sanders Have So Much Support?0

    Running respectively in the Republican and Democratic primaries for President, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have attracted much more support than the party establishments expected. They didn’t expect it because, in prior presidential-election cycles, men like them would almost certainly have been marginal candidates destined to drop out early. That hasn’t happened, and at this

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  • Why Do Traditionalists Idolize the 1950s?

    Why Do Traditionalists Idolize the 1950s?31

    I don’t think it would be a shock to anyone to point out that traditionalists often romanticize, even idolize, 1950s American culture. Why? I think the allure lies in nostalgia, even nostalgia for a time we’ve never experienced. It’s easy to romanticize an era which we think embodies our values and lifestyle dreams. In reality,

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