Category: Lifestyle
What’s the Difference Between Vegan and Vegetarian?
Katherine Livingstone at The Conversation: Vegan and vegetarian diets are plant-based diets. Both include plant…
Why Doctors Dismiss the Gut-brain Relationship
Xi Chen at Aeon: Today, unlike in the 1990s, it is well established that conditions…
Our Biggest Challenges—from Global Warming to Demographic and Technological Transformations—Cannot be Resolved by Countries Acting Alone
By Gita Bhatt at the IMF Blog: Our biggest challenges—from global warming to demographic and…
How Sonia Delaunay Paved the Way for Wearable Art as We Know it
Lynne Cooke at The Burlington Magazine: Visionaries are fundamental to the avant-gardes that appeared in…
Erik Rittenberry: You’re Painfully Alive in a Drugged and Dying Culture
by Erik Rittenberry at Poetic Outlaws: It’s quiet here in the early morning and no…
Human-Like ‘Bio-Skin’ Gives Robots a Much More Nuanced Sense of Touch
By Shelly Fan at Singularity Hub: We humans are highly visual creatures, but our skin…
Will Telepathy be Forever Out of Reach?
Roger Luckhurst at Aeon: In 2016, Elon Musk launched Neuralink with the aim of manufacturing…
Where Our Philosophical Debates are Going
Samuel Kimbriel at Wisdom of Crowds: This week, I’ve been re-reading Better Never to Have…
Are Electric Cars Better for the Environment than Fuel-powered Cars? Here’s the Verdict
Jo Lauder at ABC News (of Australia): Whether you drive an electric car or are…
Crop Circles: Who’s Hoaxing Whom?
“They may not be evidence of UFOs, ancient spirits or secret weapons, but there is…
Kat Rosenfield: Glamorizing a Marital Split is Narcissism Disguised as Feminism
Kat Rosenfield at The Free Press: Five years ago, all my girlfriends suddenly decided to…
Brazil: A Melting-pot Genetic Present and an Uncharted Deep Past
by Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: In 1494, the expansionary Iberian powers negotiated the Treaty…