The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
Even if you’re not an anthropologist, you’ve probably encountered one of this field’s most influential notions, known as Man the…
The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
Even if you’re not an anthropologist, you’ve probably encountered one of this field’s most influential notions, known as Man the…
How Mathematical Objects Are like People and Other Mysteries of Intersection Theory
Hannah Larson is obsessed with understanding what happens when two or more mathematical objects intersect. Larson, a mathematician at the…
Bizarre Quantum Theory Explains Why Your Coffee Takes So Long to Drip through a Narrow Filter
What happens when matter transitions from one phase to another—a solid to a liquid or a liquid to a gas?…
Prominent Consciousness Theory Is Slammed as Bogus Science
A letter, signed by 124 scholars and posted online last week, has caused an uproar in the consciousness research community.…
Moon Landing Denial Fired an Early Antiscience Conspiracy Theory Shot
I was recently in the attic of my house, going through old possessions in preparation to move across the country.…