by Christine Kenneally BH | May 31, 2012 | Attention, Books, Brain, Common sense, Consciousness, Science
Even as the number of hours in the day remains fixed, the number of decisions we must make grows. Organic versus non? Public versus private? Paper versus digital? Modern adults must navigate real and virtual worlds, and if they have children, they need to keep an eye...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 8, 2010 | Co-operation, Common sense, Complexity, Demographics, First human..., Food and Drink, Genes, Populations
Since 2004, I’ve spent a lot of time staring at the ceiling thinking about tsunamis and earthquakes. The monster wave that hit Indonesia that year was caused by a earthquake so violent it shifted the axis of the earth a few centimeters. Now I can’t get this out of my...
by Christine Kenneally BH | May 27, 2010 | Bilinguals, Brain, Common sense, Evolution, Intonation, Plasticity, Words
"Rawa-dawa!" And other words. In this week's cover story at New Scientist.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Apr 21, 2008 | Common sense, Consciousness, Science
Faced with pictures of odd clay creatures sporting prominent heads and pointy limbs, students at Carnegie Mellon were asked to identify which “aliens” were friendly and which were not… New York Times.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 24, 2007 | Common sense, Crows
There’s a lot relevant to language evolution in the latest Current Biology. First up: crows. The First Word reports on Betty the New Caledonian crow who worked out how to build a hook so as to snare some hard-to-reach food. The most remarkable part of...
