While there is still time

After 3 occurrences of cancer within the family (2 dead, one will go any day now) I finally bought this book I have been meaning to read si...

"Dozens of studies demonstrate that solitary people have a vastly increased rate of premature death from all causes - they are three t...

"...Within the effulgence of their new brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance - a symphony of mutual exchange an...

Evolution is not an upward staircase "Many people conceive of evolution as an upward staircase, an unfolding sequence that produces ev...

Die, selfish gene, die For decades, the selfish gene metaphor let us view evolution with new clarity. Is it now blinding us? David Dobbs ...

Brian Cox visits the world's biggest vacuum chamber - Human Universe: Episode 4 Preview - BBC Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...

"Biases often work in surreptitious ways — they sneak in through the backdoor of our conscience, our good-personhood, and our highest ...

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." Carl Sagan in 'Contact'

Almost a kind of meditation, as you move from country to country, see ocean depths, continents emerging. Check out the options on the right...

"A lot of people thought that the brain after clinical death was inactive or hypoactive, with less activity than the waking state, and...

Will scientific progress undermine our sense that we have free will? Will it eventually lead us to conclude that free will is an illusion? ...

“Biologist Constantin Slobodchikoff, in his twenty years of researching communication patterns among prairie dogs, has proven that they hav...

"Dreams are not without sense, nor are they best understood to be expressions of infantile wishes. They are the result of the intercon...

In today's excerpt - astronomers and physicists are now grappling with evidence that suggests that all the things we can observe in the...

Every time it rains, ant houses must be flooded, right? And so throughout the rainy season, do ants spend most of...

"...For many years, Hans Kuhn, a German chemist from Gottingen, has championed a related line of thought applied to biological syste...

"...In a Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking pointed his mental radio telescope at the remnants of the Big Bang, and what he saw wa...

"Apoptosis is the process of programmed cell death (PCD) that may occur in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characte...

Best talk I've ever heard in my life. "Blind river dolphins, reclusive lemurs, a parrot as fearless as it is lovelorn ... Douglas ...

Excerpt from 'Roadside Picnic' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the book on which Andrei Tarkovsky's haunting film ' The Stal...