April 9, 2021
We are all creatures of instincts. We have instincts to be territorial, hierarchical, maternal, paternal, and acquisitional — and those instincts tend to shape our cultures, guide our thinking, and activate and steer our emotions every day of our lives. Those basic sets of instincts shape common patterns of behavior across the planet — and they can be seen everywhere once we know what they...
July 21, 2020
We need to eliminate the learning gaps in our schools that are damaging so many children. The learning gaps have been getting worse — and that is happening because the basic realities of brain development science tells us that the things we need to do to close those gaps must be done for each child when the children are 15 months old — and there...
May 1, 2020
We have learned a lot about our national health care non-system in the weak and disorganized response we have just had to the Covid-19 epidemic. We are at a point in our history where we should be figuring out how to provide better care and how we should manage to follow the lead of every other western country and actually cover everyone, and we can...
