First of three parts No one knows why we dream. It stands to reason that dreams have some purpose because nearly everyone dreams, and we dream 3 to 6 ...
We used to have “balloon” debates in school: The hot-air balloon is losing height and, to avoid disaster, people must be jettisoned. To avoid this fat...
The ocean absorbs 90 percent of the excess heat generated by burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions...
By Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of thi...
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing m...
The sweeping wildfires in Los Angeles are just another horrific manifestation of the rapidly increasing and deadly effects of climate change. Those wh...
A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect of our human story into ...
Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much like intelligence does. M...
(Last of three parts) Adopting Ricky Lee’s concept of taong panloob, allow me to put forward the following proposition: taong panloob represents our t...