Why Humans Fight

In the fight against the coronavirus, one key component of the human immune system has hogged the limelight: antibodies.

"Sometimes, life takes people away... I still sometimes question why 26/11 had to ever happen, but the only way to fight back is to not give up," says a Mumbai woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. Her story about overcoming the death of her husband, raising their daughters alone as a working mother and going back to school to finish her edu...

Humans have been fighting jet lag for some 50 years. In that time we've cast far and wide for tricks to rejigger sleep cycles disrupted by airplanes. There are dubious herbal supplements and, more dubiously, earbuds that blast light toward the brain. Sleep experts suggest soaking up finely portioned amounts of sunlight, with more light early in the...

Is there a fundamental difference between war fought for reasons of belief and war fought out of self-interest? Is one more primitive than the other, or morally superior?

In the fight against the coronavirus, one key component of the human immune system has hogged the limelight: antibodies.

"Sometimes, life takes people away... I still sometimes question why 26/11 had to ever happen, but the only way to fight back is to not give up," says a Mumbai woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. Her story about overcoming the death of her husband, raising their daughters alone as a working mother and going back to school to finish her edu...

Humans have been fighting jet lag for some 50 years. In that time we've cast far and wide for tricks to rejigger sleep cycles disrupted by airplanes. There are dubious herbal supplements and, more dubiously, earbuds that blast light toward the brain. Sleep experts suggest soaking up finely portioned amounts of sunlight, with more light early in the...

Is there a fundamental difference between war fought for reasons of belief and war fought out of self-interest? Is one more primitive than the other, or morally superior?