David Eagleman:The main thing that inspired me to write this book is looking at all the ways the conscious is just the littlest bit of what’s happening in the brain. Your brain does these massive computations under the hood all the time. And a hunch essentially is the result of all tho...
While I am certain I have neither the experience or complete knowledge to balance national budgets, ensure prosperity and maintain the health of an entire country, I do have some ideas about what we’re doing wrong conservation-wise, and how we could potentially fix things. This is not meant...
“…in actual reality, the project has succeeded in manufacturing mostly this: an endless supply of wonderful things for the President to promise his supporters. This past weekend, in an interview with a local Wisconsin TV station, Trump insisted Foxconn had built “one of the most incredible ...
Some of the worst things that happen to people with dementia in hospital is that they often become dehydrated because they do not drink enough water. Putting a jug of water beside to a person with dementia means nothing, we may not recognize it as water, so the hospital staff see the ...
Things have changed a lot. [Before the eelgrass decline, ] everybody was out in the bay from the middle of September until the middle of October. If you check how many people are out there at those times now, maybe one family in each trapline, some traplines are empty. It’s very ...
If the population of frogs and salamanders were to crash due to habitat destruction (as is happening in Ohio right now), what would be the effect on the community? Explain the answer, giving specific examples in suppor What are ecosystems? What are 2 effect...
Okay, all right, but that’s not a lot of comfort when what’s happening today in the environmental realm is only slightly more scary than what’s happening today in the political. In short, I don’t think one has to be living under a heat dome all summer to experience multiple ...
Whilst the first meaning of justice (justice in the wider sense) refers to ‘moral justice’, a virtue displayed towards others, the second meaning (justice in the narrower sense) signifies ‘equality’ and is concerned with the proportionate ratio of commensurable things (Chroust and Osborn ...
Over the time, children become engaged in making predictions, becoming scientists, learning about plants, liv- ing things, weather, and seasonal changes. Participation in projects like the Tulip Garden 13 "For whom? By whom?": critical perspectives of participation… 773 "gives students an ...
Composting can be as easy as tossing some food scraps and leaves in a bin. Here’s a goodguide to getting started composting, including a great list of 100 things you can compost. In addition to saving on fertilizer, if you pay for trash collection, you can save money by wasting less....