The Worlds - lite

It's too bad there isn't another intelligent species on Earth. And by "intelligent", I mean a species at least as int...

Interesting article about our symbiotic relationship with bacteria. It's the type of article that I suspect is interesting only to sci...

We humans are plastic. In case you're not familiar with this use of the term "plastic", it means malleable, changeable, flui...

From a science news story today: Neurotransmitters linked to mating behavior are shared by mammals and worms . And from another story re...

I just read a great article in the New York Times. It's an interview with Chris Stringer , a British paleoanthropologist, and it tou...

In the comments on Greg Laden's blog , I found the following: There was a sad statement in the one blog that read "I respect ...

We're even less special today than we were yesterday. It seems rats not only feel empathy but try to help rats that are in distress. So...

There's an interesting article on physorg today. It suggests that chimps throwing feces is a sign of intelligence. That's the hea...

There have been some startling medical breakthroughs lately, though hardly anyone seems to have noticed. I assume people are busy watching...

If we look at the world around us, we see that people are not the same every day. They go through periods where they feel a certain way, a...

We see funny, ridiculous stories like this all the time: KINSTON, N.C.— Residents in an eastern North Carolina city say a patch of kudzu...

I found an interesting article on physorg. It's called " Monkeys might be more logical than we think ". Here's an excerpt:...