Living Fossils

How Would Humans Have Handled Hobbits?

The Primary Part of a Parable.

Oct 22 • 

Rob Kurzban

9

3

How to Understand Human Behavior (Part 1/3)

Understanding the person.

Oct 15 • 

Josh Zlatkus

22

2

Should You Get Into A Utilitarian Waymo?

Let’s Put the Three Laws of Robotics into Robots.

Oct 1 • 

Rob Kurzban

14

5

September 2025

Checking the Fossil Record: Giving and Receiving Advice

Dusting off an old favorite.

Sep 24 • 

The Living Fossils

Thuggistry

Skepticism, Gullibility, and Bayesianism.

Sep 17 • 

Rob Kurzban

79

18

Should You Have Kids?

A question you were never meant to ask.

Sep 10 • 

Josh Zlatkus

19

22

Fear of Missing Out

The Cost of Missed Opportunity. Is there an expression for that?

Sep 3 • 

Rob Kurzban

13

10

August 2025

Insulation Makes Artists and Assholes

What Elon Musk and road rage have in common.

Aug 27 • 

Josh Zlatkus

16

4

Behind the Veil

Competitive Morality Across Cultures

Aug 20 • 

Rob Kurzban

23

6

Little Humans, Big Rules

Parental exhaustion is another tax of the built environment.

Aug 13 • 

Josh Zlatkus

24

11

Cute Crushing

I will hold him and squeeze him and call him George.

Aug 6 • 

Rob Kurzban

12

14

July 2025

The Fossil Record So Far

Where we’ve been, where we’re going, and how we’re doing.

Jul 30 • 

The Living Fossils

18

10