New clues on the origins of agriculture
Using a new approach, researchers from Colorado State University and Washington University have uncovered evidence that underscores one long-debated theory about the origins of agriculture.
How scheduling takes the fun out of free time
While scheduling might help keep people on track when it comes to tasks, new research from Olin Business School shows it can derail all-important leisure time, making fun feel like a chore.
Déjà vu all over again? Cultural understanding vs. horrors of eugenics
Scientific efforts to explain feeblemindedness, delinquency and racial inferiorities date to the Spanish Inquisition. And while the horrors of Nazi Germany exposed fatal flaws
in science’s quest to build the master race, the ethical dilemmas posed
by the science of eugenics are far from behind us, warns an anthropologist from Washington University in St. Louis.