Featured Book The Gap The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals Thomas SuddendorfHardcover edition 2013 Our drive to understand one another and our ability to imagine different possible futures is what makes us different from other animals. These two qualities transformed communication into language and empathy into morality. They enabled us to share …
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At least 21 million extra lives were saved due to the accelerated progress resulting from the efforts of the Millennium Development Goals between 2000 and 2015 in child mortality and malaria, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. By Margaret A. Caudill-Slosberg, MD, PhD, MPHContributing Writer At least 21 million extra lives were saved due to the …
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Education isn’t just about textbooks and classrooms. From coding to communication skills, at its best education equips learners with the tools needed to thrive in the job market as well as in other aspects of life. By Kathleen Mazor, EdD, MSContributing Writer Education can equip learners with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed …
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Featured Book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity Carl ZimmerHardback edition 2018 Our understanding of heredity has come a long way and holds much promise, but we’ll need wise judgement to manage the emerging science of genetic engineering. In this wide-ranging and extensively researched book, science writer Carl Zimmer …
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Featured Book Multimind A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior By Robert E. OrnsteinContributing Writer The author notes that since the publication of his breakthrough work “The Psychology of Consciousness,” the scientific understanding of the brain has become more detailed and specific. Rather than confining our understanding to two minds: the rational mind, dependent …
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Featured Book New World New Mind Moving Toward Conscious Evolution Robert E. Ornstein and Paul R. Ehrlich Paperback edition 2000 The world that made us was one that changed little or not at all during a lifetime: tasks and social roles were passed down unaltered for millennia. Our biological evolution favored ancestors with limited perceptions and …
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We are in the midst of the greatest revolution in communication technology since humanity spread across the globe, exceeding in scope and impact the printing press. A change of this magnitude to how we communicate with each other requires us to adapt both as individuals and as nations. The experts in the fields of media, …
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During the chaos and confusion of the bloody battles and the social disruption of the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods, a new and vital cultural and intellectual movement emerged that to this day profoundly influences the lifestyles and social consciousness of millions of people. By Sally MallamContributing Writer It became known as The …
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Featured Book Guns, Germs, and Steel The Fates of Human Societies Jared DiamondPaperback edition 1999 Geographical and ecological advantages, not differences in people, gave Eurasians a head start on the rest of the world. At the time of colonization, the Europeans had a food production system in place that produced enough surplus to allow large …
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Featured Book Neanderthal Man In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante PääboReviewed by George Kasabov Neanderthals, our nearest cousin species, finally died out soon after 40,000 years ago. How are we related to them? When did we first branch off from them? Did we interbreed with them? How big is the genetic gap between our …
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Climate and energy data is often presented in units that may be unfamiliar. But the units chosen here are intended to make comparisons simple. Climate and energy data is often presented in units that may be unfamiliar. But the units chosen here are intended to make comparisons simple. So it is more important to notice, …
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A wind farm in Shanxi, China China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has promised to shrink emissions to zero by 2060. It is critical to anyone born in this century that China keeps this promise. For ten weeks in the summer of 2022 a brutal drought and heat wave struck an area of …
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