Two recent publications on other animals DNA (RNA) and capabilities sure puts humans to shame … humans are really not that special, regardless of what you think about yourself. Horses Horses are engineered (DNA) to perform at endurance rates humans can only fantasize about with robotics. Per the post in Popular Science, birds also have…
… and the word was, “RUN!” or, “HIDE!” or, “STAY!” Totally makes sense that history started with a word, else what could be told to others? This is not focused on making sounds, but a communicative language. A recent genomic study places human divergence driving language somewhere 135,000 years past. Based on what the genomics data indicate…
A recent post on Marcus Aurelius and change found another emperor / ruler talking about change – … mostly the same sentiment. Wikipedia has this to say about the book. “In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen…
In a recently published academic paper that I cannot now find nor fully remember, the author focused on the metaphor change from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. They asserted that that simple metaphor change was introduced initially as a compromise to “deniers”; that metaphor change, either intentionally or not, reduced angst, urgency and sadly, human…
