Tag: Wednesday Round Up

He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive Outstanding magazine article which uses the story of one professor – Dan-el Padilla Peralta – to examine…

The Super Mario Effect – Tricking Your Brain into Learning More Why You Should Still Wear A Mask And Avoid Crowds After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine It may…

5 Don’ts For Better Fat Loss (Evidence Based) Decent summary of how to start to create the long-term changes that sustain weight loss and healthy weight ‘Toxic Individualism’:…

Dylan Thomas reads “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” This reading makes the poem come even more alive, to hear its rhythms in the voice of…

Ira Glass, the Host of This American Life, Breaks Down the Fine Art of Storytelling Doing the Biocultural Work with Dr. Jada Benn Torres and Dr. Gabriel A…

Trees Talk to Each Other in a Language We Can Learn, Ecologist Claims Like humans, trees are extremely social creatures, utterly dependent on each other for their survival.…

Human-Animal Interactions – The Badger Version The biology of dads The finding was fascinating in light of seminal research in birds, which had established that testosterone facilitated aggressive…

Rigorous Study Backs A Psychedelic Treatment For Major Depression The study of cancer patients “led us to consider whether or not this treatment might be effective for people…

How the Awful Stuff Won The distinction between the religious fanatics and the click-chasers collapses still further as Phelps-Roper explains that, because Westboro’s fanatical conception of predestin…

Laziness Does Not Exist I’ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years, I’ve witnessed students of all ages procrastinate on papers, skip presentation days,…

The Consciousness and Metacognition YouTube Channel Here’s one, a general overview of why understanding the brain can be useful to different people, from researchers to social workers. Introduction…

My Octopus Teacher Gordon W. Hewes — a four-field anthropologist with an encyclopedic, visual sensibility. He was interdisciplinary before it was cool. There’s No Homunculus In Our Brain…

This photo in the Guardian illustrates so well the social forces, and their material approaches to society and change. The caption reads, “Protesters demanding justice for Breonna Taylor…

Octavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our Leaders Again and again, Butler cautions against the blindness of choosing from a state of heightened emotion — the very…