Hive Theory: Why Humans Stay in Destructive RacketsMike Sparks
Why are Burmese pythons so destructive? Burmese Pythons: Burmese pythons are large, constricting snakes found in the jungles of Southeast Asia. These snakes were brought to the United States to be sold in the reptile trade and since have escaped and become an invasive species in Florida. ...
Your microbiome has its own fungal communities that live in the gut, skin, and respiratory tract. Known as the mycobiome, its role in your overall health is an emerging area of interest.
Because humans are born with the need to resolve uncertainty, according to a recent study in Psychological Science. The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will seek to avoid their curiosity even when it is clear the answer will hurt. In a series of four ...
to wildlife, and to livestock."Americans have reason to worry. Wild pigs already cause around $2.5 billion in damage to U.S. crops every year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And they can be aggressive toward humans. A woman in Texas was killed by wild pigs in 2019....
Brook and Boots are designing a more formal model of disease evolution within bats in order to better understand virus spillover into other animals and humans. “It is really important to understand the trajectory of an infection in order to be able to predict emergence and spread an...
Are humans particularly self-destructive when compared to other animals? If so, why did we evolve this way? Mutations can sometimes add genetic diversity to populations. Explain why new mutations in somatic (body) cells are not a source of genetic diversity in populations. ...
Marci believes it’s just a matter of time before we realize how destructive phones can be for kids. Marci is the chair of the MGH Endowment for the Advancement of Psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the ...
In the medical literature, toxicity has been defined as the "degree to which a substance (a toxin or poison) can harm humans or animals" (Shield, 2022). In the leadership literature, toxic leaders are those that are "exploitative, abusive, destructive … corrupt and poison- ous" (Walton,...
By intruding into wild areas and exploiting wildlife, we are also giving pathogens such as the virus causing the covid-19 pandemicmore chances to make the jump into humans or domesticated animals.Warming is generally expected to make matters worse, for example by allowing disease-car...