B-roll weekends The memories of the ones we keep close in life are much the same. We snap photos of all that we deem important: our wedding, the vacation to Mexico, things we think will get a laugh or a lot of likes on Instagram. And this is how we write the story of our […]

A’s utilityman Chris Coghlan learned to adapt after dad’s death “People are afraid to get embarrassed. They’re like, ‘Man, if I can play just one position, I can get comfortable with this and do this.’ So the big thing for me is to be fearless. If I mess up, I mess up. But I’m prepared […]

Japanese Hunter-Gatherers Defy Notions About Prehistoric Violence

I created an account to highlight the harassment of women on Twitter; Twitter suspended it “Twitter won’t life a finger to help women combat online harassment, nor while they allow us to help ourselves. I don’t hold out much hope that I’ll get the account back, or that Twitter will make any real strides in […]

Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns “But distal synapses do something else. They also recognize when certain patterns are present, but do not trigger firing. Instead, they influence the electric state of the cell in a way that makes firing more likely if another specific pattern occurs. So distal synapses prepare the […]

A Force Unto Itself: A Military Leviathan Has Emerged as America’s 51st and Most Powerful State “…virtually all studies of the all-volunteer army have indicated that it is likely to be less representative of and responsive to popular opinion, more expensive, more jealous of its own prerogatives, more xenophobic — in other words, more likely […]

Autism–It’s Different in Girls “Few scientists—including Baron-Cohen—think that the extreme male brain theory is the whole story. A second idea emerges when looking at the typical strengths of women. If having female hormones and a female-type brain structure increases the ability to read the emotions of others and makes social concerns more salient, it might […]