Sam Harris may not be quite there with his theory surrounding the scientific basis for morality, but his ideas deserve further entertaining. He outlines these ideas in his book “The Moral Landscape“, where he says that morality is not only measurable, and that a determinable “best-case scenario” can be found within the realms of science, but that science itself through measurable and tangible evidence can offer us moral...

On my recent trip to Sydney, I had a significant amount of time on my hands before my flight home after finishing the job I had to do there. I usually buy New Scientist mag on short interstate trips, but I had already devoured the current issue on the flight up the previous day, so following my yearning for interesting reading material, I went to the airport bookstore and picked up a copy of New Scientist’s book “Why Are Orangutans...