Exploring Black Sci-Fi, Learning through Color, the Cost of Cooling, and Other New Books
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A Teenager with Autism Protects the Planet, a Tale of Love and Science, and Other New Books
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Another intriguing week has past on Planet Earth with stories ranging from the Mother of All Accidents –had an asteroid arrived 30 minutes sooner or 30 minutes later, the dinosaurs would still be here– to the Alien Octopus Hypothesis to is our Universe a Weird Permutation?
Homo sapien’s ‘Shadow’ Species –Hints We May Have Had Story of Evolution All Wrong, reports The Daily Galaxy. “Carl Sagan observed that the frontal lobe of the human brain, comprising more than two-thirds of our brain mass, is where “matter is transformed into consciousness.” Maybe, suggest scientists, we’ve had the story of human evolution wrong: that language evolved before our brains started getting larger (we have brains 3x the size of apes), and language led to brain size increase instead of being a result of it?”