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Podcast: Who is Joe Biden? : The NPR Politics Podcast : NPR
The evolutions of Joe Biden and the Democratic PartyDecember 23, 20243:00 AM ETBy Sarah McCammon, Domenico Montanaro, Mara Liasson Source: Podcast: Who is Joe Biden? : The NPR Politics Podcast : NPR
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Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World ‹ Literary Hub
Damien Bador on the Origins of a Fantasy Classic By Damien Bador, April 8, 2021 JRR Tolkien disliked novels that tended toward autobiography, though he did not dispute the fact that an author has no choice but to use his or her own experiences in writing fiction. The Lord of the Rings is most assuredly not an…
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Science quietly wins one of the right’s longstanding culture wars | Salon.com
A new survey reveals a resounding victory for advocates of evolution and a setback for purveyors of pseudoscience By Matthew Rozsa, Published August 24, 2021 6:23PM (EDT) The bitter culture wars over the teaching of evolution in public schools dominated headlines throughout the 2000s, in large part because of the Bush administration’s coziness with evangelicals…
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What is consciousness like for other animals and when did it evolve? | New Scientist
The conscious experiences of non-human animals, from whales and birds to octopuses and bees, are revealing fresh clues about when consciousness evolved and what it’s for Life 7 July 2021 By David Robson Children know the fun of throwing a ball into the sea, only to watch the waves fling it back. Jennifer Mather and…
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Human Evolution Offers Clues For Modern Brain Health : Shots – Health News : NPR
June 18, 20215:00 AM ET, by Bret Stetka It’s something that many of us reckon with: the sense that we’re not quite as sharp as we once were. I recently turned 42. Having lost my grandfather to Alzheimer’s, and with my mom suffering from a similar neurodegenerative disease, I’m very aware of what pathologies might…
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Why Are You So Smart? Thank Your Mom & Your Difficult Birth – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
This is the kind of impasse that encourages innovations that might be considered “creative,” or at least as creative as an evolutionary process without explicit goals, without a guiding intelligence, can be. Evolution found some important mechanical tricks to get around this constraint: Babies’ skulls are made of pieces that shift during birth, women’s pelvises…
