Author: Denyse O'Leary
Can Insects Be Conscious? Let’s Look at Bees First
It is important to qualify what “consciousness” means when we are talking about bees.
Royal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse
While others demand crackdowns on “fake news,” the Society reminds us that the history of science is one of error correction.
Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think
Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences.
Loving Goodbye…from an Octopus?
Did the science teacher’s octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye?
Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There
Because minds don’t fossilize, anything we think we know about the minds of putative prehumans is speculation.