To say that a culture reaches fluorescence is to say that a culture acts like a flower, it builds up to some monumental or beautiful peak

For thousands of years before European contact, the peoples of eastern North America have lived along the banks of the region's many rivers.

The fact that humans do not make purely rational decisions has been established in psychology and is taken as a set of constraints or bounds

The Hopewell culture culminates in a history that goes back thousands of years.

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For diurnal animals, dawn and dusk are special times.

… and what does it have to do with a crow using a tool or the origin of life?

As humans, we live inside our little heads and we have this illusion that we are separate from the world and our bodies.

The inside of a biological cell is considered a gel.

Humans are excellent at seeing patterns and categorizing what they see. Some are only imagination, others form the basis of our science.

Whether consciousness or language in humans came first is an open question.

How does a technology supposedly based on the expansion of human freedom need an autocrat to force people to use it?

Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object.

This is the techno libertarian ideal. Which will hold true? What could possibly go wrong?

A NetLogo model of a simple economy has a surprising result of inequality.

A dynamic system is a set of mathematical equations in which one or more variables change according to time.

During the 1930s and 1940s a group of scientists tried to reconcile the newly rediscovered Mendelian genetics with Darwin's theory of...