8. Culture & Curiosity!

The psychedelic state induced by LSD appears to weaken the association between anatomical brain structure and functional connectivity, according to new

For 30 years, USDA has advised men to limit themselves to two drinks per day. Experts can't agree on whether to update that advice.

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Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third of our lives. In this talk, Foster shares three popular theories about why we sleep, busts some myths about how much sleep we need at different ages -- and hints at some bold new uses of sleep as a predictor of mental health.

i bet this is what it would be like if the nazi's won the war .. .( and NO im NOT insinuating any one who produced this work is or ever was a nazi or nazi sy...

La vida flamenca – why art and daily life are inseparable for a flamenco guitarist

Wabi-sabi offers a refuge from the modern world's obsession with perfection, and accepts imperfections as all the more meaningful – and, in their own way, beautiful.

Insights into the little-studied realm of last words

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The Art of Photography Finding Your Voice The two images here are taken minutes apart, with lenses that are decades apart. One, a 35mm Nikkor-O f/2, so old, it’s pre-AI. And the other a relatively …

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Every idea needs a Medium

Every idea needs a Medium

Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals. Now researchers have discovered the first example of an animal domesticating another animal, with a fish species found to recruit shrimp to tend their algae farms.

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The immigration crisis of 1620.

The 14 years between the two Borat films also peel back the layers on another journey undertaken in North America — from post-racial pretensions to full-on racism.

Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.

You're about to stumble into the looking-glass world of contronyms—words that are their own antonyms.

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In the late ‘90s, a group of Microsoft engineers started tinkering with old Dell laptops in the hopes of creating a console based on Microsoft’s DirectX

A former nurse and recovering alcoholic explains

This month in Uncovering the Past several new finds and research provide new details for understanding the practices of past cultures.