The science behind disagreements. Or why we cling to our beliefs

It doesn’t matter whether one’s opponent appears calm and confident or unsure and unsteady. Initial disagreement can create immediate bias.

Andreas Kappes, The Conversation

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Tali Sharot, The Conversation

· Dec 29, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Why we will not bring you a Best Books of the Year list in 2016 (and, possibly, ever again)

Comparisons are bad enough. To limit them to the year of publication of a book is capricious.

Arunava Sinha

· Dec 28, 2016 · 08:30 am

What is a writer to do with freedom? (Or, lessons from Albert Camus)

Many writers are unhappy, angry and disillusioned with the way the world is turning out. But this is an opportunity.

Rheea Mukherjee

· Dec 03, 2016 · 08:30 am

Modi rocked Wembley. Would India allow the Bangladeshi leader to do a similar show in Delhi?

Lessons from the prime minister's recent foreign trips, particularly to the US and the UK.

Garga Chatterjee

· Nov 18, 2015 · 06:30 pm

Somehow Americans are still debating whether to take down a flag used by slavery supporters

A century and a half after the American Civil War, states continue to use this symbol of racism.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 24, 2015 · 01:30 pm

Ram Jethmalani's lonely black money quest prompts him to accuse Modi of "intentional fraud"

Jethmalani said he trusts Kejriwal more than the Modi government on this.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Apr 28, 2015 · 01:22 pm