A friendly reminder: Earth Day is on Wednesday, so be the best steward you can be! I’m working on a post or two with Earth Day specifically in mind, but I won’t claim this is one of them. A lot of my posts have to do with a year-round fascination with Earth and the living [...]
Scientific American usually does a great job — but today, I suspect their reporters weren’t listening very closely when they wrote this post: “Texas vote moves evolution to the top of the class.”
I listened this afternoon to the Texas Board of Education as its members revised the state’s science teaching standards, and it sounded to me [...]
I’m definitely not breaking news here — ol’ Santino has been making the rounds in the past couple of days. But he deserves his fame. He’s revealed a way of thinking that’s never been so definitively attributed to non-human animals.
Santino, a chimp, lives at Sweden’s Furuvik Zoo. Back in 1997, zoo keepers noticed odd piles of [...]
Science will never be able to study God. But scientists are getting ever closer to describing what happens in our brains when we think about God.
The idea to peek inside the brains of religious folks is not new, and it started the way many other brain studies did: by looking at brain damage. Starting in [...]
Carbs may have paved the way for humans to evolve two million years ago, which means low-carb diets could actually be — well, primal.
Anne Stone, an anthropologist at Arizona State University in Phoenix, has been exploring the genetic underpinnings of the human shift to a starchy diet, which may have been a pivotal factor in [...]
