Whose Reality is This?

I read the term "helicopter parenting" this morning and all I could picture was a helicopter and kids without connecting the maze ...

Pangea and the diversity of life.   Most everyone knows what Pangea was: the largest supercontinent in Earth's history. All land masses ...

"Pathosystem"  I like that term. It encompasses a systems perspective -both pathogen and host- rather than focusing on just a sing...

I love this quote. Wish I had it on a rubber stamp.  "Being unable to accurately measure the thing on which a theory is based is a fair...

One commonly known trait of autism is fear of change. Reaction to change can be extreme, e.g. a 'meltdown', or mild, such as slight ...

Discovering as an older adult that you are Asperger's: You feel fine most of the time. But you don't know if that's because you...

“The origins of the obesity epidemic may be further back than we thought” A recently published paper concluded that the rise of obesity bega...

A fantastic genome study of 2000 canids tells a 'story' of selective dog breeding over time and space.  "Incorporating 20 × da...

I know I'm not alone in this. So many ghosts linger in the void who didn't know, didn't have a word for it. They, we, were stran...

 "The secret always finds its way out, if not in words, then somatically, and most often in a way that it can be dealt with and helped ...

  What do you complain about the most? Noise, the unpleasant energy sound waves that reach my ears, disrupt the waves in my brain leading to...

To fully understand evolution, and life itself, one must be able to grasp quantum theory (quantum mechanics is mostly mathematical equations...

It's unnerving, and rather irritating, when someone you reconnect with after 4+ decades tries to pin you to a point on a linear time sca...

While reading this post about Virginia Woolf ,  I was reminded of an internal and eternal dialogue pondering the question of how we perceive...

Peeve: When the scientific community can't agree on a definition consensus for a term, such as 'muscle memory'.  Muscles don...

Modern biotechnology is wonderful. It reveals wonders that we can't see without it. It tells us more about ourselves and about each othe...

Like most Americans I'm a 'mutt': a combination of different nationalities, rather than one identifiable national identity. Mayb...

 "Little brainiacs and big dummies: Are we selecting for stupid, stout, or small dogs?" Intriguing study . The title is catchy, so...

I'm bored with spinning, TV and reading my books. It's cold and raining outside. So I'm reading a few papers on how phosphates e...

 What caffeine does to the brain.  This question has popped up in short ‘vacant spaces’ (periods of quiet without other junk thoughts) the p...