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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It

by Carolyn Wells January 19, 2023January 19, 2023

“Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.”

Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 17, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Diana Moskovitz, Kathryn Ivey, Katherine Laidlaw, Chris Colin, and Josh Dzieza.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

How Tiny, Yet Über-Efficient Spider Brains Can Improve Computer Technology

by Krista Stevens March 30, 2017October 19, 2022

Big brains offer no advantage in the animal kingdom.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

If You Want to Be Productive, You Have to Rest

by Aaron Gilbreath November 2, 2015October 19, 2022

In a recent thought-provoking review of research on the default mode network, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of the University of Southern California and her co-authors argue that when we are resting the brain is anything but idle and that, far from being purposeless or unproductive, downtime is in fact essential to mental processes that affirm our […]

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