Where’s The Beef? How Veggies Might Save the World

We have a problem on our hands: over the past 50 years, global meat production has almost quadrupled. And with it, we’ve seen serious environmental consequences. In the words of the United Nations, the meat industry is one of the “most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to …

Being Human: Monkeys and Apes Enter The Stone Age

What does it mean to be human? We’ve pondered over this puzzle for centuries. From philosophy, to evolutionary biology, to neuroscience, there are many different ways to approach the question, but one suggestion seems to come up time and time again: intelligence.