The first humans emerged in Africaaround two million years ago, long before the modern humans known as Homo sapiens appeared on the same continent. There's a lot anthropologists still don't know about how different groups of humans interacted and mated with each other over this long stretch of...
Another possibility in graduate classes is that in addition to readings done by all students, each student may also be expected to work independently in some area of interest and later make a presentation that summarizes what her or she has learned. Usually each student then goes on to write ...
Because, long ago in the evolutionary past, an ancestor of humans (and all other vertebrate animals) underwent a contortion that twisted its head around 180 relative to its body, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. In humans, the left brain (...
“In Aramaic, ‘mourning’ could mean sorrow, grief, pain, or regret. Humans always have the choice of learning by spiritual unfoldment or by painful experience. Most people do not seek God whole-heartedly unless trouble, sorrow or failure appears in their lives. I was referring to the ‘va...
When did humans appear? Bones of primitive Homo sapiens first appear300,000 years agoin Africa, with brains as large or larger than ours. They're followed by anatomically modern Homo sapiens at least 200,000 years ago, and brain shape became essentially modern by at least 100,000 years ago...
Did I happen to read more smart articles to my left on economics? Or did I happen to flirt with a lot of women in NYC, almost all of whom are to my left on economics? Perhaps I sat down to read those articles because I met those women. It’s impossible to disentangle the two. ...
Even in Russia, where the revolution did come, they saw it as less “workers vs. capitalists” than they did “Russian people vs. the puppets of that German woman.” The various contortions of Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, etc. have all been an attempt to deal with the fact that...
The wētā derives its name from the indigenous Maori language, meaning "god of ugly things." It is endemic to New Zealand. Because the nation was void of mammals for an extended period, the wētā could evolve to a rodentlike size, though the introduction of actual rodents to the islandha...
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
The wētā derives its name from the indigenous Maori language, meaning "god of ugly things." It is endemic to New Zealand. Because the nation was void of mammals for an extended period, the wētā could evolve to a rodentlike size, though the introduction of actual rodents to the islandha...