When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
"The cliffs are vulnerable to this, undercutting from the wave action," saidMerrifieldof the Scripps Center. TheScripps Institution of Oceanographyat UC San Diego is a global leader in climate science. They've been measuring rising sea levels for decades. ...
Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes have coexisted for hundreds of millennia and share more than 98 percent of their genetic material, yet only 40 years ago we still knew next to nothing about chimpanzee behavior in the wild. That began to change in the 1960s, when Toshisada Nishida of Kyoto ...
This chapter covers emerging zoonotic diseases, with a focus on the current understanding of how and where zoonotic pathogens circulate, their pathways to emergence, potential for sustained human-to-human transmission, and gaps in our knowledge. The first cluster of infections among people may be re...
AI art challenges the millennia-old paradigm of humans as the sole creators of art. Its introduction raisesquestions about the genesis of creativityand carriesethical and legal concerns. AI art also presents an opportunity to extend the boundaries of art and creativity in multiple ways. ...
Targeted therapies, which were first introduced in the 1980s, are drugs that precisely identify and attack molecular entities such as cell-surface proteins on cancer cells. These innovations have led to the development of therapies that categorically improved outcomes for patients with many cancer ...
Gold had brief periods of huge gains in recent decades, but there were also long stretches when it was outperformed by U.S. stocks. For example, anyone who invested in gold in 2011, instead of putting money in stocks, would have gotten crushed over most of the following 10 years as U....
The first period of the Han Dynasty is called the Westen Period, which lasted until 9 AD. At this time, Wang Mang successfully led a revolt against the Han, which lasted 15 years (9 AD - 24 AD). In 25 AD, the Han were able to take back their power. This period is called the ...
We know a lot more nowadays about animal suffering than the Stoics did two millennia ago. Moreover, we have developed truly horrific standardized practices for the treatment of animals in quantities that the Stoics could not have imagined. Just to give you an idea, these are the USDA ...