“I like to have a place of my own. A place where I can be by myself. When I want to play and think by myself I like to have a place of my own.”
I hope that when you ask me about your childhood, I have a ready story or a moment you've never heard before described in a way in which you can see yourself from my perspective
Transferring memories from one living thing to another sounds like the plot of an episode of “Black Mirror.” But it may be more realistic than it sounds — at least for snails.
“That’s my blood, not the deer’s,” said Eden Kloetzli, a senior at Washington College, in Maryland, as she gazed at the red liquid staining her palm. She and about a dozen other students were busy slicing and dicing four deer carcasses laid outside the school’s new archaeology laboratory. Making the task harder, the novice butchers were using tools that they had knapped themselves out of obsidian, basalt, and flint.
In a new book, “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked,” the social psychologist Adam Alter warns that many of us — youngsters, teenagers, adults — are addicted to modern digital products. Not figuratively, but literally addicted.
It's Alternate Earth and the first female president of the Unites States is about to be sworn in.
My last departure from social media lasted a whole twenty-four hours. This time, I plan take a more extended break, assuming I can fight back the tiny endorphin release of…
Just started listening to the podcast, The Allusionist, and love it. If you're interested in the etymology of words, the host, Helen Zaltzman, interviews linguists and explores meaning in a…
