Author: Denyse O'Leary
Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar
The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent.
All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)
In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them.
Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking
Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan.
Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism
The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.”
Near-Death Research Slowly Fills in the Picture
When an 87-year-old man was having his brain scanned, he died — unexpectedly — of a heart attack. So, the scan recorded his unanticipated final brain activity.