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The biggest myths about emotions, debunked | Lisa Feldman Barrett
[,,,] With the growth of self-help books and the fight to destigmatize therapy, people today are perhaps more unafraid than ever to talk about their emotions. But this has led to some common myths about emotions, and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman … Continue reading
The Evolution and Meanings of Human Skin Color | Nina Jablonski
Variation in human skin color has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. As the most visible aspect of human variation, skin color has been used in the past as a basis for classifying people into “races.” In this lecture, Leakey … Continue reading
‘That just died’: Paleoanthropologist debunks myth about humans
Paleoanthropologist Dr. Lee Berger and his team of “underground astronauts” have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. … Continue reading
Birds are Dinosaurs – How Taxonomy Works
We often get comments which argue that birds aren’t dinosaurs, or otherwise totally misunderstand how scientists research how animals are related to one another. That’s the process of taxonomy, where researchers look for different traits, run some statistical tests, and … Continue reading
Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?
When the theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind encountered a head-scratching paradox about black holes, he turned to an unexpected place: computer science. In nature, most self-contained systems eventually reach thermodynamic equilibrium … but not black holes. The interior volume of a … Continue reading
Why are the monkeys descending from the trees? | EL PAÍS
MIGUEL ÁNGEL CRIADO OCT 25, 2022 – 12:42 GMT+ 40 years ago muriquis spent just 0.05% of their time on the ground, a percentage that has increased twentyfold in a quarter of a century. MARLON LIMA / PROJETO MURIQUI DE … Continue reading
Songbugs – The stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds | Twenty Thousand Hertz
Art by Jon McCormack. This episode was written and produced by Leila Battison. Why do bugs make the sounds they do? And how do they make them? In this episode, we explore the un-bee-lievable world of insect sounds, including crickets … Continue reading
‘QBism’: quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will | The Conversation
In a In a cubist painting, reality is more than a single perspective can capture. wikipedia, CC BY-SA According to a school of thought known as QBism, quantum mechanics is a guide to action. What does quantum mechanics, the most … Continue reading
DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses
I now have a series of videos doing a deep dive into ERVs on the “Stated Casually” channel. Check it out here: • Did God put Endog… Here we explore the amazing discovery of Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) in our own … Continue reading
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