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  • The profit motive has led pirates to come up with surprisingly democratic and egalitarian social structures. It is a lesson in bottom-up economics, explains Michael Shermer.

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 460, P: 176-177

  • Michael Shermer enjoys a reminder that cutting-edge research is a step into the unknown.

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 484, P: 446

  • Michael Shermer sifts through a study of the science of randomness and our responses to it.

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 491, P: 523

  • Michael Shermer enjoys two books that examine economics and politics from a scientific perspective — one explaining the experimental basis for democracy, another placing trade in an evolutionary context.

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 465, P: 294-295

  • Developmental disorders (DDs) are more prevalent in males, thought to be due to X-linked genetic variation. Here, the authors investigate the burden of X-linked coding variants in 11,044 DD patients, showing that this contributes to ~6% of both male and female cases and therefore does not solely explain male bias in DDs.

    • Hilary C. Martin
    • Eugene J. Gardner
    • Matthew E. Hurles
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-13

  • UFO hunters and anti-vaxxers might seem like modern phenomena, but they both take inspiration from a little-known anti-science movement.

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 631, P: 269-270

  • A timely tale of one man's mission to stamp out medical fraudsters in 1920s America.

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 451, P: 628-629

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 4, P: 749-750

    • Michael Shermer
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 453, P: 1182-1183

  • Science can explain many things in the natural world. Although the laws of gravity, the origin of galaxies and the Universe are commonly accepted, the theory of evolution is still questioned by some. There are clear reasons for why that is, and why it need not be so.

    • Michael Shermer
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 5, P: 162-163

  • Recent reviewers suggest good books to refresh your mind this summer — from a cultural history of piracy to a scientific tour of the boulevards of Paris.

    • Steven Shapin
    • W. F. Bynum
    • Vaclav Smil
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 466, P: 563-566