From New York to Seattle, voters have swept in a new generation of progressive mayors. But how are they going to deliver on their ambitious agendas? There is much to learn from the city of Boston and a consortium of universities called the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI). I talk with the co-founder of BARI, Daniel T. O'Brien, about his new book The Pointillistic City and how all cities can emulate his highly participatory data-driven approach to evolving complex systems.

OPINION: Despite what President Trump would have you believe, transgender people are a natural part of the human species, Joan Roughgarden and Jaimie Veale write.

Matt Lalonde - Ph.D from Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Mathieu also manages the safety program for the Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

David Sloan Wilson poses this question to Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion. Jonathan's answer might surprise you

Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.

Studies examining the effects of exposure to prosocial media on positive outcomes are increasing in number and strength. However, existing meta-analyses use a broad definition of prosocial media that does not recognize the multidimensionality of prosocial behavior. The aim of the current study is to …

To advance both science and society, we must reaffirm sex as a biological binary while expanding gender as an evolutionary spectrum of bodies and behaviors.

Listen to the Podcast (audio) version: https://goo.gl/a4XnME We apologize for the quality of this episode; It was recorded before Michael moved to the new recording studio. We still have a couple episodes to release from the old studio. Quality of subsequent episodes will be better. In this dialogue Dr. Shermer speaks with Dr. David Sloan Wilson, the renowned evolutionary biologist and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. His previous books include Evolution for Everyone, The Neighborhood Project, Does Altruism Exist? and Darwin’s Cathedral. He is the president of the Evolution Institute and editor in chief of its online magazine, This View of Life. His new book, out this week, is This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution. He and Shermer discuss: • what it means to complete the Darwinian Revolution solving the “is-ought” and “naturalistic fallacy” through proper science and philosophy • why evolutionary psychology is an equal opportunity offender for liberals and conservatives • why both laissez faire and command economies fail • what is morality? • dispelling the myth of social darwinism • policy as a branch of biology • solving the tragedy of the commons through game theory • the evolutionary origins of good and evil • natural selection, group selection, multi-level selection and the debate with Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins over selfish genes • why nationalism is like religion • how a biologist thinks about immigration, nuclear deterrence and other policy issues • the rise of nationalism and what to do about it. This dialogue was recorded on February 1, 2019 as part of the Science Salon Podcast series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society, in California. Listen to Science Salon via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Soundcloud https://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/science-salon/ Watch past Science Salon videos https://www.skeptic.com/science-salon/ Learn more about Science Salon: https://www.skeptic.com/science-salon/about/ Learn more about Skeptic https://www.skeptic.com/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST You play a vital part in our commitment to promote science and reason. If you enjoy the Science Salon Podcast, please show your support by making a donation, or by becoming a patron. Your ongoing patronage will help ensure that sound scientific viewpoints are heard around the world. https://www.skeptic.com/donate/ #sciencesalon

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Let’s hope future DNA studies don’t show a lot of Trump genes in the population.

A new paper by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that policymakers are more