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This is the brain of a butterfly undergoing metamorphosis as new neurones are born through a process called neurogenesis. Studying this process can provide valuable insights into how the nervous system is formed, as well as brain disorders, says scientist Alcalde Anton

storytelling may function as a mechanism to disseminate knowledge by broadcasting social norms to coordinate social behaviour and promote cooperation.

The type of knowledge in question is “meta-knowledge” – information about other people’s knowledge. This is, in fact, required for any society to function.

In combination with considerably slower rates of reading and diminished reading comprehension, curtailed homework time means that an English teacher might not be able to assign more than 10 to 15 pages of relatively easy prose per class meeting, a rate so excruciatingly slow, it diminishes one’s ability to actually grasp a novel’s meaning and... See more

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

― Anne Bogart

A 2010 study by Dr. Mar found a similar result in preschool-age children: the more stories they had read to them, the keener their theory of mind — an effect that was also produced by watching movies but, curiously, not by watching television.

companies are ignoring very real harms to humans. “This is probably the first time in our entire technology careers that we actually see this much conflict,”

The crisis is a function of a deep contradiction at the heart of the system, whereby we treat homes both as places to live, and also as financial instruments; a source of 'passive income'. We know that location value is created by the community – and yet we allow it to be privately captured, creating a valuable asset class. In theory at least, we... See more