What’s Snuffing Out Galaxies Before Their Time?

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 5, 2021November 5, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: What’s Snuffing Out Galaxies Before Their Time? on the Universe Today website.
Andromeda Galaxy Image: Michael S Adler,

Interview with Samuel Grove on Freud and Darwin

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: It is 150 years since the publication of Darwin’s The Descent of Man. Kezia Picard sat down with Samuel Grove, author of Retrieving Darwin’s Revolutionary Idea, to talk about the relevance of Darwin’s theory for psychoanalytic thought..

Freud and Darwin

What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa?

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 History, Science

Click Here to Read: Excavations at the site of ‘Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions of human resilience and adaptability By Josie Glausiusz on the Sapiens website on October 14, 2021.

Homo erectus adult female – head model – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History – 2012-05-17 Image: Tim Evanson Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory: Did the virus spring from nature or from human error? By Carolyn Kormann in the New Yorker on October 12, 2021.

Why simplicity works

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Why simplicity works: Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple? by Johnjoe McFadden on the Aeon website.

The 15 meter Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Image: NASA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What If the Universe Had No Beginning?

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: What If the Universe Had No Beginning? by Paul Sutter on the Real Clear Science Website.

Unmismoobjetivo of Wikimedia Commons.

Remembering Ndakasi, a beloved mountain gorilla

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Science

Click Here to Read: Remembering Ndakasi, a beloved mountain gorilla: Nat Geo photographer Brent Stirton reflects on the life of a famous orphaned mountain gorilla Story and Photographs by Stirton as told to Douglas Main on the National Geographic Website on October 8, 2021.

Mountain Gorilla (not Ndakasie) Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.