The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa

By Tamar SchwartzApril 2, 2019April 2, 2019 History, Science

Click Here to Read: The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa By Lizzie Wade on the Science website on March 6, 2019.

Bete Giyorgis (Church of St. George), Lalibela, Ethiopia. Photo: Bernard Gagnon. PublicDomain via Wikimedia Commons.

Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 27, 2019March 27, 2019 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness? Giulio Tononi’s “integrated information theory” might solve neuroscience’s biggest puzzle by By David Robson on the BBC website on March 27, 2019.

Phenomenal consciousness and functional consciousness, English version. Public Domian via Wikimedia Commons.

Time to say goodbye to “statistically significant” and embrace uncertainty, say statisticians

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 24, 2019March 24, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: Time to say goodbye to “statistically significant” and embrace uncertainty, say statisticians by Nicole Lazar on the Retraction Watch on March 21, 2019.

Was Thomas Kuhn Evil?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 23, 2019March 23, 2019 Film, Science

Click Here to Read: Was Thomas Kuhn Evil? Filmmaker Errol Morris, once Kuhn’s grad student, accuses him of being a bad philosopher and bad person by By John Horgan on the Scientific American website on March 19, 2019.

A Future Without Fossil Fuels

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 15, 2019March 15, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: A Future Without Fossil Fuels? by Bill McKibben
in The New York Review of Books on April 4, 2019 Issue.

Solar panels, wind turbines, and an electricity pylon; unidentified location. Photo: hpgruesen. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down For 14 Generation

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 11, 2019March 11, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down For 14 Generations by Signe Dean on the Science Alert website on April 27, 2018.

The human DNA model takes on a double helix shape. Image: PublicDomainPictures

How AI Will Rewire Us

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 8, 2019March 8, 2019 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: How AI Will Rewire Us: For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship by Nicholas A. Christakis in the Atlantic Monthly in the April 2019 Issue. Robot Image Public Domian via Wikimedia Commons.