All posts for May 2014

By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory, animal studies suggest. Experiments showed that a traumatic event could affect...

It’s the second week in January and, at about this time, that resolution that seemed so reasonable a week ago — go to the gym every other day, read a book a week, only drink alcohol on weekends — is...

Among the many replies we received on this blog, one came from Story of Stuff’s Annie Leonard. She felt it was important that the other side of waste incineration be told, and guided The Pachamama Alliance to an organization –...

Nisha Lilia Diu, The Daily Telegraph, National Post Wire Services Oh, no. Incense. There’s a juice bar in the lobby and bhangra music playing, too. It feels like I’ve stepped into some kind of space warp. Outside, London. Inside …...

Tom Standage argues that writing, which allows ideas to travel across space and time, has done the most for human progress ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January/February 2012 The greatest invention of all must surely be writing. It is not...