How a Tiny Brain Region Guides Generosity
The decision to help a friend or stranger—and the amount of help that one chooses to give—may be powerfully shaped by the brain’s basolateral amygdala
First Hormone-Free Male Birth Control Pill Shown Safe in Early Human Trial
A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A metabolite has just concluded its first safety trial in humans, getting a step closer to…
For Dolphins, Echolocation May Be More like ‘Touching’ Than ‘Seeing’
Dolphins seem to “feel” their way across the sea with narrow, sweeping beams of sonar
The Primal Pull of People Watching
Our social voyeurism may have deep evolutionary roots
Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths
Companies are experimenting with deep-sea tech to produce cheaper fresh water
Nowhere Fast
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”
Webweaving and blogging can change your life
Making my own website and blog, as well as participating in the indie web helped me to cultivate a more meaningful relationship with the web, by carving my own space…
Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Excerpts from an Interview by Sociologist Christian Parenti (Cuba, 1997)
Christian Parenti teaches sociology at the New College of California in San Francisco. What happens to old Black Panthers? Some wind up dead, like Huey P. Newton. Some join the…
Homecoming: the small web and release from the unitary public self
In 1776, a Quaker living in Philadelphia recovered from a severe illness with a peculiar conviction: they had died and been reborn as the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal…
The craft of building websites evolves when it follows web browsers, instead of fighting against them
The reason social media platforms have taken over people's content is because there is a perception that setting up a website is inherently difficult. While there is certainly some work…