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This Gigantic New Burgess Shale Creature Looks Like a Floppy-Eared Hound
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale is home to a newly-identified species. Balhuticaris voltae is...
The Outdated Tests Far Too Many Schools Still Use to Judge a Kid’s Ability
Slate via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThis story about intelligence testing in schools was produced by the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit,...
Daniel Dennett, fiery atheist philosopher who saw human brains as ‘programmes’ – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 week agoDaniel Dennett, the American philosopher, who has died aged 82, was, with Richard Dawkins, a leading...
Comparing black people to monkeys has a long, dark simian history
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe climax of popular simianisation was the hugely successful classic of Hollywood’s horror factory,...
How An Ant Researcher Became A Giant Among Scientists
Investor's Business Daily· 1 year ago"We are destroying species that were built up over millions of years and are invaluable to society...
Epstein befriended a slew of scientists. New records contain ‘orgy’ allegation against one
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJeffrey Epstein had over the years cultivated personal relationships with a galaxy of the world’s...
David Quammen predicted the pandemic in ‘Spillover.’ His new book ‘Breathless’ tracks the race...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDavid Quammen was right. That’ll be chiseled someday into his gravestone. For much of 2020, the great contemporary science writer — whose career started in Chicago more than 50 years ago, in ...
The Nazis adored it; the Japanese commercialised it – why we’re trapped in the cult of cute
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn the fable The Wolf and the Dog, La Fontaine depicted the former as wild and free, the latter as...