The Marketplace in Your Brain
Neuroscientists have found brain cells that compute value. Why are economists ignoring them?
Neuroscientists have found brain cells that compute value. Why are economists ignoring them?
Sherrilyn Roush, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rice University, takes on the philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics. She is extraordinarily intelligent on cosmology. Physicists, open the golden doors, usher her in.
U.S. astronomers say they’ve observed a young star with a rotating dust disk considered the youngest still-forming planetary system ever found. The infant star surrounded by a swirling disk of dust and gas is more than 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory reported. While just one-fifth the mass…
Examining several attempts to change the way in which science is taught in the Kâ16 levels.
Creativity enhances life. It enables the great thinkers, artists, and leaders of our world to continually push forward new concepts, new forms of expression and new ways to improve every facet of our existence. The creative impulse is of particular importance to scientific research. Without it, the same obstacles, ailments, and solutions would occur repeatedly…
It’s hard to imagine how this teeny little rock â it’s not even a whole rock, it’s just a grain, a miniscule droplet of mineral barely the thickness of a human hair â could rewrite the history of our planet. But that’s what seems to be happening. This piece of Zircon, an extremely durable mineral…
An ancient Buddhist statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite. Researchers say the 1,000-year-old object with a swastika on its stomach is made from a rare form of iron with a high content of nickel. They believe it is part of the Chinga…