What tipping point?

Malcolm Gladwell claims that everyday life is fundamentally nonlinear. He said that his father, Graham Gladwell, a British mathematics professor, described this principle in a concise way that was particularly poignant for young Malcolm as he tried to pour the desired amount of ketchup at the family dinner table: “Tomato ketchup in a bottle-None will

Do animals have emotions?

The PBS show Nature claims that “careful scientific research is validating what we intuitively understand: that animals feel, and their emotions are as important to them as ours are to us.” The show NOVA, on the other hand, argues, “Seeing dogs for what they are—and not crediting them with qualities of intelligence or emotion they

What did we ever do before GPS?

Well, believe it or not, we used our brains more. And according to Julia Frankenstein, a psychologist at the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany, the more we rely on technology to find our way, the more likely we are to lose our ability to develop our own mental maps. Now,