There’s a world of intriguing ideas in these new nonfiction books from five Bay Area authors. From Robert M. Sapolsky’s deep study of human behavior, to Steve Casner’s “user’s guide” to preventing ...

Robert M. Sapolsky is that rara avis who's both eminent scientist and elegant prose stylist. Three decades ago, at the ripe old age of 28, he won a MacArthur genius grant before settling into a ...

Here are the five works of nonfiction that most held our attention in 2017. “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst,” by Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin Press, $35, 800 pages). If you ever ...

FOR sheer ambition, it’s hard to beat Robert Sapolsky’s new book, Behave. Sapolky’s goal is nothing less than a new way of seeing ourselves, free from separate “buckets of explanation” and walled-off ...

I have a weakness for science made simple. This could be because I am just finishing up the first season of a podcast that explores how adolescents make decisions and how parts of their developing ...

Humanity is simultaneously incredibly kind and incredibly violent. We commit indescribable atrocities, but also acts of incomprehensible compassion. There is both horror and beauty in our history.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Robert Sapolsky is a Professor for Biological Sciences, Neurology and Neurological Sciences in the Stanford University with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

After studying humans and other primates for 40 years, Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky has concluded that many factors beyond our control influence our choices and behaviors, leaving free will ...

There’s a world of intriguing ideas in these new nonfiction books from five Bay Area authors. From Robert M. Sapolsky’s deep study of human behavior, to Steve Casner’s “user’s guide” to preventing ...

Here are the five works of nonfiction that most held our attention in 2017. “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst,” by Robert M. Sapolsky (Penguin Press, $35, 800 pages). If you ever ...