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Do Birds Dream About Their Own Birdsong?

Do Birds Dream About Their Own Birdsong?

David M. Peña-Guzmán on Animal Consciousnesss

By David M. Peña-Guzmán | June 23, 2022

Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy?

Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy?

Dr. Natalie Petouhoff in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 23, 2022

How Myth and Poetry Helped Us Unlock the Mysteries of Photosynthesis

How Myth and Poetry Helped Us Unlock the Mysteries of Photosynthesis

Raffael Jovine on Plants and Scientific History

By Raffael Jovine | June 22, 2022

The Oddest of Organs: A Brief History of the Tongue

The Oddest of Organs: A Brief History of the Tongue

Kate Crowcroft: “The tongue is employed as a metaphor for the extension and consumption of aeons.”

By Kate Crowcroft | June 22, 2022

Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation

Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation

Lisa Lewis in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 21, 2022

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Fat

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David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé on the Evolving Science Around What We Eat

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Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

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What the Ancient Greeks <em>Thought</em> They Understood About Blood

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A 17th-century book about the existence of aliens has been found in England.

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How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds

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How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

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