Humans
Humans’ intimacy with technology: Are we all becoming cyborgs?
(BPT) – Do you think you could live without your mobile phone? What about the navigation and backup camera in your car? Could you drive as well without them? Could you get by without your smartwatch reminding you how often to get up from your desk to keep healthy or weather conditions for the day […]
Paul Dolan Believes All Humans Strive For Happiness, Which He Defines As A Combination Of Pleasure And A Sense Of …
Bosses who find their staffreading copies of Paul Dolans Happiness by Design should feel wary. The social media person at Penguin read the book and quit, Dolan tells me. Someone else read the draft and dumped her boyfriend ofeight years. I have come to meet Dolan in his office at the London School of Economics, […]
Insect diet helped early humans build bigger brains: Quest for elusive bugs spurred primate tool use, problem-solving skills
Figuring out how to survive on a lean-season diet of hard-to-reach ants, slugs and other bugs may have spurred the development of bigger brains and higher-level cognitive functions in the ancestors of humans and other primates, suggests research from Washington University in St. Louis. “Challenges associated with finding food have long been recognized as important […]
Humans may benefit from new insights into polar bear’s adaptation to high-fat diet
A comparison of the genomes of polar bears and brown bears reveals that the polar bear is a much younger species than previously believed, having diverged from brown bears less than 500,000 years ago. The analysis also uncovered several genes that may be involved in the polar bears’ extreme adaptations to life in the high […]