What happens to the biggest clock in your body when the light never sinks into the sunset (e.g., Schwartz 1996)? When the fuel that feeds your heart never varies and the panic perceived by sleep loss never ends?
So many things you can't even imagine.
And not...
Posted June 29, 2010 | 16:30:00 (EST)
Our viability as a life form means that our responsiveness to the seasons in terms of food supply and reproduction are really all there is in regard to ending up on top, in the Darwinian sense. That's why our genes have "on and off" switches, controlled by hormones, that respond...
Posted June 4, 2010 | 13:05:00 (EST)
You darkness, enfold the spirit of those who ignored your glory.
Take us now.
--Mayra Montero, a prayer to be said for the dying from You Darkness, 1999
The soft comfort rendered by the sounds of amphibians at night is as deeply buried in the human consciousness as...
Posted May 18, 2010 | 09:47:16 (EST)
"I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of intercommunication is awe-inspiring. It's like a galaxy that you can hold...
Posted April 27, 2010 | 16:30:57 (EST)
Dying of Cancer is something we all fear.
Having a heart attack, although it seems more remote, because we don't hear about it on television every day, would probably kill us where we stand. But the possibility of losing our minds and independence and not even really knowing it...
Posted July 9, 2010 | 15:35:00 (EST)