Category: Outside the Box

Authors: Alice Bain SciGuru reports on new work showing similarities between how bees communicate and come to consensus to choose a new nesting site after

Authors: Alice Bain Bobby McFerrin on the mysteries of the pentatonic scale. …

Authors: Alice Bain Scientists have now studied and deconstructed the toddler temper tantrum, giving us a much better idea of what’s actually going on behind

Authors: Alice Bain Kids who were abused as children grow up with brains tuned to be hypervigilant – similar changes have been observed in the

Authors: Alice Bain Live Science reports on research showing that babies are inherently turned off by people who are dishonest or unreliable. Humans are, from

Authors: Alice Bain The Boston Globe has run a wonderful story about a set of identical twins, born as Jonas and Wyatt, who nevertheless have

Authors: Alice Bain Recent work has shown that the hairs on spiders’ and insects’ legs act in the same way as the cilia in the

Authors: Alice Bain Via Grist, a report on the burgeoning failure of Monsanto’s GMO pesticide-resistant and pesticide-producing crops. Basically, in an evolutionary race against insects

Authors: Alice Bain Viktor Frankl, a holocaust survivor and respected psychiatrist, discusses the value of holding ourselves and others to a high standard of ethics

Authors: Alice Bain “To have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and

Authors: Alice Bain It’s so important to be grateful. …

Authors: Alice Bain This question has been debated by people throughout the ages, but here’s a novel answer: The purpose of life is to hydrogenate