Broken child welfare policies have undermined political systems and destroyed the planetary ecosystem.
How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
Harnessing the power of story may help us survive and thrive on a climate-altered planet.
Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
We must find a better way to prevent land use from changing.
The Mystery of the Missing Apes Who Came Before Humans
The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years.
The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens the Nation’s Rivers
Leaving river protections to states doesn’t make sense when rivers cross state lines.
The GOP’s Stalinesque Plan 2025 to Shape the Future of U.S. Food and Agriculture
The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation wants to rid the USDA of sustainability, climate change mitigation, and racial equity.
Can You Reset Your Biological Age to Live a Longer, Healthier Life?
Biological age may really just be a number.
Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By Marjorie Hecht Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other scientists have studied for decades, developing a series of new hypotheses about learning and experiments to […]
Learning From History, if We Dare
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By Gary M. Feinman The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert once observed: “If history tells us anything, it’s that we never learn […]
 Is Politics All in the Mind?
Political partisanship has a neurobiological basis, a new study shows. It is predicted by the way our brains process basic political words or concepts.