In this talk from SAND 2018, Robert Sapolsky considers the unlikely realms where humans are merely on a continuum with other species…until you look closely. With a host of surprising and fascinating examples and illustrations he spells out the case that humans are a type of ape, operating on the same basic types of neurons found throughout the animal kingdom. So is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?
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"Refugia": places of safety where life endures
The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth Excerpts from a recent essay in Emergence Magazine Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of environmental studies and geosciences at Lawrence University
What can the ancient science of Ayurvedic Medicine teach us about living longer, healthier lives?
Tiokasin ruminates on the indigenous view of consciousness and our connection as Earth herself.
A discussion of Neil's new book "Notes on Complexity"
By the river it is cool and gray at last after a night of longed-for rain, however intermittent
A new study claims that fungi possess great intelligence to the point that they can make decisions
The waters off Central California are now part of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, the result of a decades-long campaign by local Indigenous leaders
