A couple of weeks ago, Jane Goodall appeared on PBS on Bill Moyers Journal. You can watch the video online.

Human culture changes with time; if it didn’t, we’d all still be wearing those hairstyles that look so amusing when they appear in old yearbook photos, and the music of the 1980s would sound just like the music of the 1970s or the 1770s or…well, you...

The latest “Casual Friday” post at Cognitive Daily links to a survey that’s kind of fun, if you enjoy thinking about things like your favorite word and least favorite word. The survey includes the ten questions that guests answer on every episode of...

If you’ve read anything about the study of memory, you are probably familiar with the story of Henry Molaison, a man who lost the capacity to form new memories after brain surgery to control seizures in 1953. Known for years only by his initials,...

On a human time scale, few things are more permanent and immobile than the Earth’s surface. Visible signs of change are relatively rare and noteworthy: hillsides roaring down onto highways, the neat lines of fences or roads disrupted by earthquakes,...