Tag: MIT Press
Your big brain makes you human – count your neurons when...
Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Vanderbilt University
Here’s something new to consider being thankful for at the dinner table: the long evolutionary journey that gave you your big...
Removing mini-shampoos from hotel rooms won’t save the environment
Yossi Sheffi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
InterContinental Hotels Group will replace mini-shampoos and conditioners with possibly more efficient bulk products by the year 2021.
But environmental...
How to stay honest this tax season
Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University
As Americans begrudgingly work through their taxes this year, many could be facing a moral struggle about whether to...
What your pet’s microchip has to do with the Mark of...
Jordan Frith, University of North Texas
An almost invisible electronic device used all over the world – best known to much of the public for...
Want to live longer? Consider the ethics
John K. Davis, California State University, Fullerton
Life extension – using science to slow or halt human aging so that people live far longer...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
