The Human Library

from France 24 At the ‘Human Library’, everyone is an open book Copenhagen (AFP) At the “Human Library”, you can “loan” a person to tell you their life story, an original concept born in Denmark that is designed to challenge...

Suckers Not Junk

from Phys.org Why some fish are ‘junk’ and others are protected. Study points to bias against native species by Margo Rosenbaum Credit: CC0 Public Domain Andrew Rypel grew up fishing on Wisconsin’s pristine lakes and rivers. With just a worm on his...

Pleistocene Couture

from Smithsonian Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World’s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago by Brian Handwerk A bone tool from Contrebandiers Cave likely used for making...

The Troubled Teen Machine

from The New Yorker The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids By Rachel Aviv In the spring of her freshman year of high school, in 2011, Emma Burris was woken at three in the morning. Someone had turned on the lights in her room. She was facing the wall and saw a...

The Dreamverse

from Nautilus Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners BY JIM DAVIES Photo Illustration by MDV Edwards / Shutterstock For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with...