# sex differences (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sex differences. Page: Feed: --- ## [Mismatched](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/mismatched) _2026-08-20 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ Why the modern world makes us miserable ## [The Life and Death and Life of Repressed Memories](https://www.skeptic.com/article/life-and-death-and-life-of-repressed-memories/) _2026-08-19 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ Unpack the resurgence of the dangerous “repressed memory” myth. Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and social psychologist Carol Tavris dismantle pseudoscience, debunk traumatic memory tropes, and expose how disproven psychological fads continue to endanger society. ## [Are Sex Stereotypes True?](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/are-sex-stereotypes-true) _2026-08-18 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ My appearance on the Spiked podcast with Fraser Myers ## [What Is Christian Counseling? How American Christians Split Over the Science of the Mind](https://www.skeptic.com/article/what-is-christian-counseling-how-american-christians-split-over-the-science-of-the-mind/) _2026-08-17 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ S omewhere in America this week, a depressed Christian will sit down across from a counselor who believes that her fundamental problem is not a disorder but a sin. In another office, a different Christian will see a licensed psychologist who prays with her, assigns scripture alongside cognitive-behavioral homework, ## [12 More Things Everyone Should Know About IQ](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-more-things-everyone-should-know-about-iq) _2026-08-15 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ Big brains, smart genes, and the end of the Flynn effect ## [Indigenous Knowledge, Public Money, and Bad Science](https://www.skeptic.com/article/maori-antarctica-myth-new-zealand-curriculum/) _2026-08-13 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ How did a debunked indigenous voyage to Antarctica become part of New Zealand’s curriculum? Discover how government funding, media silence, and cultural deference are pushing pseudoscientific ideas into modern science and education—and why critical scrutiny is vital to public trust. ## [The Four Horsemen of the Evolutionary Apocalypse](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-four-horsemen-of-the-evolutionary-apocalypse) _2026-08-13 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ My latest appearance on the Modern Wisdom podcast, plus a new review and a new interview about A Billion Years of Sex Differences ## [Texas Education and Christian Nationalism](https://www.skeptic.com/article/texas-education-and-christian-nationalism/) _2026-08-12 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ A $1 billion voucher program, two oil billionaires, and a fight over church-state separation: this piece investigates whether Texas’s new Education Freedom Accounts are the latest move in a decades-long strategy to reshape public schools around a White Christian nationalist vision. ## [Driverless Cars and Human Error](https://www.skeptic.com/article/driverless-cars-and-human-error/) _2026-08-12 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ When a driverless car makes a mistake, everyone pays attention. A robotaxi stops awkwardly in traffic. A Waymo gets confused near a construction zone. A child runs into the street and is struck. A fleet of empty autonomous cars circles a residential neighborhood. A self-driving vehicle passes a stopped ## [Smarter People Are More Prosocial](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/smarter-people-are-more-prosocial) _2026-08-11 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ Intelligence predicts charitable giving, voting, and environmental choices ## [Build with the cheapest GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hWI6Dx3jAFdm) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Deployed a live API in minutes; one user spent under $10. ## [The Moral Case for Dropping the Atomic Bombs](https://www.skeptic.com/article/the-moral-case-for-dropping-the-atomic-bombs/) _2026-08-09 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ O n this, the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9), it is altogether fitting to revisit the moral question of their development and use. Operating under the best intelligence that indicated the Nazis were working on their own bomb project, it was ## [Darwin Was Right About Sex Roles](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/darwin-was-right-about-sex-roles) _2026-08-08 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ A major test of sexual selection theory comes down firmly on Darwin's side ## [The View From Inside: How Mind Emerged From Mindless Matter](https://www.skeptic.com/article/how-consciousness-evolved-from-mindless-matter/) _2026-08-07 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ How did lifeless matter learn to feel? Psychiatrist Ralph Lewis traces consciousness from bacteria to human self-awareness, showing step by step how sensing, learning, memory, and emotion evolved into subjective experience—demystifying the brain’s deepest mystery, no soul required at all. ## [How I Went From Dangerous Heretic to Boring Academic in Just Three Years - Without Changing Any of My Views](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/from-dangerous-heretic-to-boring-academic) _2026-08-06 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ My conversation with Josh Szeps on the Uncomfortable Conversations podcast ## [We Can’t Just Lie About Sex Differences](https://www.skeptic.com/article/is-evolutionary-psychology-pseudoscience-sex-differences/) _2026-08-04 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ Steve Stewart-Williams addresses misconceptions about evolutionary psychology, refutes charges of pseudoscience, and discusses the political and ethical risks of denying biological sex differences, advocating for an honest, evidence-based approach to human nature. ## [Why Men Take More Risks](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/why-men-take-more-risks) _2026-08-04 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ The nature, nurture, and evolution of sex differences in risk-taking ## [Why Two People with the Same IQ Can End Up Living Very Different Lives](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/why-two-people-with-the-same-iq-can) _2026-08-01 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ Four graphs that change how we think about intelligence and achievement ## [A Billion Years of Sex Differences: The Story So Far](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences-the-story-so-far) _2026-07-31 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ ...plus a new review in Quillette and my appearance on the Michael Sartain Podcast ## [Reincarnation: What Science Says and Doesn’t (or Can’t) Say](https://www.skeptic.com/article/reincarnation-science-what-research-says/) _2026-07-30 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ Inside a University of Virginia lab, scientists have spent nearly six decades gathering unsettling evidence: children who recall violent deaths, bear matching birthmarks, and know facts they never could have learned. A grieving skeptic investigates whether reincarnation might just be real. ## [Lab-Grown Meat: Separating the Science From the “Yuck”](https://www.skeptic.com/article/lab-grown-meat-inside-cleanest-kitchen-you-will-never-see/) _2026-07-28 · Skeptic · Skeptic_ Is lab-grown meat the sustainable future of food or an unsettling science experiment? Dive into the complex world of cultivated protein as this insightful article explores the “yuck” factor, steep economic hurdles, and structural shifting driving the cutting-edge future of farming. ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/RPBqaMRvli1U) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [What Do Your Favorite Movies Say About You?](https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/what-do-your-favorite-movies-say-about-you) _2026-07-28 · Steve Stewart-Williams · The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter_ New research links the Big Five personality traits to people's film preferences ## [A Generic Ontological Finickiness](http://unremediatedgender.space/2025/Sep/a-generic-ontological-finickiness/) _2025-09-14 · Zack M. Davis · The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ On Twitter, Eliezer Yudkowsky wonders why male-to-female transsexualism triggers more reactionary public opprobrium than female-to-male. Yudkowsky proposes four potential explanatory factors, not mutually exclusive: (1) that modern liberal Society doesn't care about gatekeeping male roles the way its forbearers did, (2) that MtF triggers intuitions in men for the repression … ## [Interview with Kelsey Piper on Self-Censorship and the Vibe Shift](http://unremediatedgender.space/2025/Aug/interview-with-kelsey-piper-on-self-censorship-and-the-vibe-shift/) _2025-08-07 · Zack M. Davis · The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ On 17 July 2025, I sat down with Kelsey Piper to chat about politics and social epistemology. You can listen to the audio file — Or read the transcript below, which has been edited for clarity. Table of Contents Post-Election Candor and the Costs of Silencing The Hidden Neoliberal–Progressive Conflict … ## [Link: "The Jenner Shift and Its Consequences"](http://unremediatedgender.space/2025/Apr/link-the-jenner-shift-and-its-consequences/) _2025-04-10 · Zack M. Davis · The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ Sorry for the sparse blogging lately—I've been busy with other projects. Fortunately, at least one other blogger has been covering the gender politics and social epistemology beat in my absence: at Repeal the Common Era , the author delivers an excellent 4.3K word piece on "The Jenner Shift and … ## [Prediction Markets Are Not a Drop-In Replacement for Concepts](http://unremediatedgender.space/2024/Dec/prediction-markets-are-not-a-drop-in-replacement-for-concepts/) _2024-12-21 · Zack M. Davis · The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ In "Comment on a Scene from Planecrash : 'Crisis of Faith'" , I criticized a scene in which Keltham (a magical universe-teleportation victim from an alternate Earth called dath ilan) plays dumb about why a pre-industrial Society would only choose males for military conscription. Planecrash coauthor Eliezer Yudkowsky comments : Keltham wouldn't be …