Someone joins a bhajan group with no particular faith and years later finds themselves genuinely devout. The usual explanation reaches for magic or manipulation. The actual mechanism is simpler, well-studied, and has nothing to do with the specific god being sung to.
India's small farms need sophisticated testing, chilling, packing, transport, and market access. They do not all need to become large farms. The better development question is which functions require scale—and who should own them.
Explore the cooperative paradox, analyzing how men and women cooperate differently. This post challenges old stereotypes like the 'Male Warrior' and 'Nurturing Female' with modern scientific evidence.
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Behavioral ScienceAugust 17, 20256 min readEvergreen
We treat empathy as the foundation of ethics — the more you feel someone's pain, the better you'll act. In the lab, inducing empathy makes people violate their own stated principles of fairness. The problem isn't that empathy is bad. It's that it was never a moral faculty.