Hunter MaatsAn Inconvenient Truth: Talking About Climate Change May Actually Make It WorseMore and more often, I find my news feed populated with stories about climate change. It’s increasing forest fires. It’s promoting extreme…Dec 6, 2019Dec 6, 2019
Hunter MaatsSuperpowers and Snake Oil: Electricity, Radiation, Genes and other MacGuffins of the Modern AgeThere are things that moviemakers and storytellers want. They want car chases, explosions and naked girls on boats. They want superheroes…Jun 3, 20191Jun 3, 20191
Hunter MaatsThe God of Numbers: Why People Who Worship Math and Science Don’t Actually Respect ThemWith the rise of social media, it has become so easy to publish your own story to the world that virtually everyone is doing it. This has…May 27, 20191May 27, 20191
Hunter MaatsBreaking Stories: Science, Literature, History, Journalism and Why Every Job is About Making…“Stories Teach Us How to Live” — The Thousand And One Arabian NightsApr 28, 20192Apr 28, 20192
Hunter MaatsThird Culture Kids: Making the Birth of Mestizo Cultures Less PainfulWhile most Americans would LOVE to have a British accent, I spent my childhood doing everything I could to avoid one. I despised the…Dec 11, 2017Dec 11, 2017
Hunter MaatsDumb-Barring: Humans Stereotype. Let’s Stereotype Better.While Mixed Mental Arts teaches you about humanity’s cognitive biases one at a time, that’s just our way of making it easier to learn how…Nov 14, 2017Nov 14, 2017
Hunter MaatsIt’s Time to Reclassify Humanity: We’re not Homo Sapiens; We’re Homo SocialisAt the very core of science lies a simple principle: when new evidence emerges we should change our minds. In theory, the scientific…Nov 14, 2017Nov 14, 2017
Hunter MaatsThe Path to Ikigai: Solving Society’s Many Dysfunctions By Designing for Humans as They Actually…Hunter-gatherers don’t have a problem helping everyone find their place in society. The older members of the tribe mentor the younger…Nov 6, 2017Nov 6, 2017
Hunter MaatsThe Aristocracy of Citizenship: How Different is the Nation State System from Apartheid?It’s now been a little over 20 years since the end of apartheid. From this distance and looking at South Africa from the United States…Oct 30, 20171Oct 30, 20171
Hunter MaatsAttention Economy: What Price Do We All Pay for Justin Bieber’s Cult of Personality?Everyone wants attention. The individual family provides a beautiful microcosm for thinking about the dynamics of the “Attention Economy.”…Oct 2, 2017Oct 2, 2017
