Source: How thinking about infinity changes kids’ brains on math | Aeon Ideas
September 17, 2016
How thinking about infinity changes kids’ brains on math | Aeon Ideas
September 17, 2016
Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky
Accepting climate change alone will not reverse its effects; we also have to adopt less perverse economic values.
Source: Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky
September 17, 2016
Emerging Right-Wing Climate Deniers Across the Globe (Maybe Even in the U.S.) Threaten the Future | Alternet
In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice caps, and fast-rising sea levels, the future is looking bleak.
September 17, 2016
How LSD Affects Language | Alternet
Acid expands the mind’s “semantic networks,” and that has interesting implications for both creativity and psychedelic therapy.
September 17, 2016
Confirming Big Pharma Fears, Study Suggests Medical Marijuana Laws Decrease Opioid Use | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
It is of little wonder that Big Pharma has been exposed actively undermining efforts to legalize marijuana, after new research on Thursday found a drop in the use of opioid painkillers in that states that allow people to treat pain with good, ol’ Mary Jane.
September 17, 2016
Before Anything Else, We Are All Human | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Weary of He Who Must Not Be Named? In desperate, soul-starved need of proof that his hate-filled America is not, in fact, all we are as a country? Visit the Ad Council’s “Love Has No Labels” inclusion-themed PSA, which just won a Creative Arts Emmy for Best Commercial. A tale of love, hope, joy, it seeks to “challenge us to open our eyes to our bias,” and remind us in these bleak times of our common humanity. Hold fast to it, and we’ll make it.
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