Rich and seemingly boundless as the creative arts seem to be, each is filtered through the narrow biological channels of human cognition. Our sensory world, what we can learn unaided about reality external to our bodies, is pitifully small. >>Read More

David Rothenberg is a friend and fellow appreciator of the evolved beauty of nature, and in February he hosted an amazing event, the Survival of the Beautiful Wonder Cabinet at NYU, featuring Jaron Lanier, Philip Ball, and an amazing line-up of Speakers (plus one rapper), all interested in the aesthetic beauty found in the natural world. >>Read More

Andrew Westoll, a journalist and former primatologist lived and volunteered at the sanctuary in the hopes of finding his next magazine article but what he ended up with was an amazing book. >>Read More

Eric Kandel is a titan of modern neuroscience. He won the Nobel Prize in 2000 not simply for discovering a new set of scientific facts (although he has discovered plenty of those), but for pioneering a new scientific approach. >>Read More

There is one law of historical dynamics that Herbert discusses explicitly. This general rule may be formulated as follows: Harsh environmental conditions create a selective regime under which only the best survive, producing cultures with tough and capable warriors. >>Read More

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who is known as the co-discoverer, along with Alfred Russel Wallace, of the Theory of Evolution, which is the unifying theory of all life sciences. >>Read More

Researchers from Monell Chemical Senses Center recently analyzed genetic material from 12 species of mammals, all of them meat eaters, and found that seven carried completely nonfunctional versions of the genes that endow us with an appreciation of sweets. >>Read More