Dispelling Myths About Human Evolution and Details Female Body’s Role

PBS NewsHour: "Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better understanding of our origins with critical implications for our present. Jeffrey Brown spoke with author Cat …

When Did Light Skin Appear in Modern Humans?

North02: A brief study of human evolution and the emergence of race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFPcZh7_elY Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... https://centerforhealthprogress.org/b... https://www.science.org/content/artic... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc... https://www.livescience.com/42838-eur...

‘Oppenheimer’ Movie Is ‘A Supersize Masterpiece,’ Critic Declares

A three-hour biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the theoretical physicist who fathered the atomic bomb, is a masterpiece, writes critic Ann Hornaday for The Washington Post. The movie "evolves from a historical and biographical deep dive to a meditation on moral injury and, in its final hour, to a thoroughly gripping psycho-political thriller," she writes. …

Google CEO: Artificial Intelligence’s Impact Will Be As Profound As Discovery of Fire

60 Minutes: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, told 60 Minutes he believes artificial intelligence technology will be more capable than anything humankind has seen before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6HpE1rhs7w The AI Revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence Competitive pressure among tech giants is propelling society into the future of artificial intelligence, ready or not. Scott …

An Earthquake Will Destroy A Big Portion of the US Northwest. Exactly When Is Not Known

The New Yorker: Annals of Seismology. The Really Big One. An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the Pacific Northwest. The question is when. By Kathryn Schulz, July 13, 2015. "The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent, outside of the …

Might the Next Pandemic Be Prevented?

There's a good chance that another global pandemic, or multiple ones, requiring mass quarantines will hit the earth in less than 100 years. One reason: climate change. Another reason: increased deforestation and urbanization due to population growth. Chatham House, a policy think-tank, explains: "It is impossible to predict when the next pandemic will occur as …

‘For All Mankind’: Gripping Alt-History About Space Race for Younger Generations

Over the holidays, my 20-something son introduced me to "For All Mankind" on Apple TV, a "what if" in which the Soviets beat the Americans in the space race in 1969, and shockingly, not with a man walking on the moon but with a woman astronaut doing so. It represents, in the minds of the …

Earth Is Currently Experiencing A 6th Mass Extinction

60 Minutes: "Leading biologist tells Scott Pelley humans would need “five more Earths” to maintain our current way of life... In what year will the human population grow too large for the earth to sustain? 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund. In 1970, the planet's 3.5 billion people were sustainable, but in …

Monkey Trial: The Showdown between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in 1925

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8-7Il8GWw "The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to …

Safer, More Efficient, and Cheaper Nuclear Energy Is Coming

Generation IV Nuclear Reactors are still in the research phase, but promise clean energy that is safer, cheaper, more efficient and cheaper than that produced by current nuclear power plants. It will also be able to work with renewable energy in future energy systems. Generation IV plants still have not solved the problem of nuclear …