Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice released its first batch of files on disgraced financier and convicted sex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk may be cheap, and actions may speak louder than words. Nevertheless, rhetoric matters. It arouses passions, noble and base.

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker comes out swinging in defense of Darwin with his latest book, The Blank Slate (in paperback this September from Penguin USA). This Harvard-based proponent of ...

A viral tweet by Steven Pinker highlights the deadly reality of a single punch, contrasting it with movie depictions. What do real-life incidents and medical experts confirm? Can a swift blow to the ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...