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The Right or Wrong Kiss Can Make or Break a Relationship
The Strange and Little-Known History of Kissing Other animals don’t kiss, not the way we do; intimately, longingly, achingly. Kissing is unique to us. And it turns out to be not only an unusual human behavior, but one that has an enormous influence on the course of each of our own lives. Every creature, science tells us, has its own unique traits. It doesn’t matter if you are a stink bug, silverback gorilla, or blue whale.
The Train Was Cancelled - So We Walked from Sweden into Finland
What happens when nine people who can’t speak a single common language are stuck in the wilds of Sweden? The morning was bright and sunny when we awoke in Boden, even if it was 10º. The previous evening, we had arrived at the town’s tiny train station and hauled our bags to the Quality Bøden Hotel a mile away for the night.
From bureaucracy to battle: Increase direct funding to combatant commanders
The new administration has embarked on an aggressive plan to reduce overall spending, pursue government efficiencies, and prioritize innovation — a long-overdue and formidable focus. While it may be appealing and appropriate to aim for big-ticket program cancellations or giant policy shifts, there are immediate smaller changes that can be made that would increase warfighter capabilities at the edge.
Riding Into Deadwood, SD - Gunfighters and Calamity (Jane)
A Vagabond Adventure — Author and National Geographic Explorer Chip Walter and his wife Cyndy’s personal journey to explore all seven continents, all seven seas, and 100+ countries, never traveling by jet. Cyndy and I rode into Deadwood, South Dakota in a rental car, not on horseback. We weren’t even carrying a revolver (or two) on our hips. We paid the fee for parking and headed to Main St. to explore the home of one of the Wild West’s most notorious cities and some of its most famous denizens.
It's time for new incentives for defense primes to invest in startups
While there have been some high-profile entrant startups that have successfully worked with the Pentagon, the majority of these small firms have found the bureaucracy too difficult to pierce — and the funding too sporadic. In this new op-ed, Chip Walter, a retired Navy captain now in the venture capital space, offers up a solution: look to the defense primes. The rules governing most markets can usually be boiled down to simple principles.
Why We Kiss
Around the time that Thumbs, Toes and Tears (my third book) came out, I wrote an article for Scientific American Mind magazine exploring the evolution of kissing. It’s one of six uniquely human traits. The article, like the one I wrote for Scientific American about crying, was very popular and republished multiple times. And both were picked up in other mainstream and peer reviewed publications around the world. Here’s an updated version… Scientific American, Inc.
'Immortality, Inc.'
An excerpt from author Chip Walter's book, 'Immortality, Inc.: Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever' Thus did art Levinson find himself motoring along the ribbons of Silicon Valley highway on Oct.18, 2012, headed to Larry Page's house, where he would soon be discussing the extermination of death. The dinner was easy-going enough. At the Pages', there were generally no fancy preparations or elaborate meals.
Pig Hearts, Placental Stem Cells, and the Search for the Aging Cure
Robert Hariri’s views on human health began to take an unusual turn a little more than 25 years ago, when he was working as a neurosurgeon and trauma doctor at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Day after day, he watched patients come into the emergency room with severe brain injuries, and it was a painful thing to witness. He never forgot the case of a woman who had arrived after a senseless automobile accident. She was young, and the injury was bad.
Things to Do This Weekend: Jan. 16-20, 2019
Visit a cult hero at the Harris, gamble with The Clarks and take in electrifying poetry at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center this weekend.
How Silicon Valley’s Elites Hatched Their MultiBillion-Dollar Scheme to Cure Death
Google, Kleiner Perkins, and some of biotech’s biggest players aligned to create Calico, a company that wants to halt aging Art Levinson, Apple chairman and CEO of Calico. Photo: John Green/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News Group via Getty Images The evening of October 18, 2012 was warm and cloudless the way Silicon Valley evenings often are.
Perspectives: Getting Back to Betting Big
Pittsburgh’s not perfect. But its shoulders are big. I’ve watched the city make a remarkable comeback. It has learned from its mistakes and resurrected that hell-for-leather vibrancy that once made it the world’s fulcrum. On the evening of Oct. 17, 1979, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles to win their second World Series in nine years. A few months later, the Steelers won their fourth Super Bowl in five years.
The Voice Inside Your Head: The Origin of "You" » Brain World
Suppose you could shrink down to the size of a molecule and enter your brain. You would immediately find yourself flying among billions of neurons along great highways of dendrites and axons with streams of chemicals splashing across synaptic gaps and firestorms of electricity arcing all around. At this scale, the real estate of your mind would be vast, planetary in its dimensions, as you rode your molecule-size vehicle.
Why Language Is All Thumbs
Excerpted from Thumbs, Toes, and Tears, Walker & Co. 2006. Published on KurzweilAI.net March 4, 2008. Reprinted with permission. We are—all of us—freaks of nature. We don’t generally see ourselves this way, of course. After all, being human, what could be more ordinary than a human being? But it turns out that our personal (and biased) impressions that we are unremarkable simply don’t stand up against the plain, objective facts.
Flipboard on Flipboard
What does the future have in store for the human race? _In his new book, Chip Walter analyzes how modern humans evolved into today's dominant, and only surviving human, species. Here he speculates on humanity's next chapter._ Evolution, as the past 4 billion years have repeatedly illustrated, holds an endless supply of tricks up its long and ancient sleeve. Anything is possible, given enough millennia.
Why We Kiss - Scientific American
Why We KissResearchers are revealing hidden complexities behind the simple act of kissing, which relays powerful messages to your brain, body and partnerAdvertisementWhen passion takes a grip, a kiss locks two humans together in an exchange of scents, tastes, textures, secrets and emotions.Purchase to read moreYou've read the preview.Already purchased?
The First Artists - National Geographic Magazine
It is as if we are walking into the throat of an enormous animal. The tongue of a metal path arcs up and then drops downward into the blackness below. The ceiling closes in, and in some places the heavy cave walls crowd close enough to touch my shoulders. Then the flanks of the limestone open up, and we enter the belly of an expansive chamber. This is where the cave lions are.
World's Most Ambitious Re-Creation of Prehistoric Cave Art to Open
On a September afternoon in 2013, Gilles Tosello sat sipping a cup of American-style coffee in his Toulouse studio, pondering the talents of cave painters who lived in France 36,000 years ago. Tosello enjoyed a personal connection with those painters because he was the man the French Ministry of Culture and Communication had engaged to re-create their most famous works, some of the oldest, most beautiful, and best preserved cave art on Earth: the images in the Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc.
Prolonged development helped Homo sapiens succeed.
Skip to the content Science There’s a misconception among a lot of us Homo sapiens that we and our direct ancestors are the only humans ever to have walked the planet. It turns out that the emergence of our kind isn’t nearly that simple. The whole story of human evolution is messy, and the more we look into the matter, the messier it becomes. Paleoanthropologists have discovered as many as 27 different human species (the experts tend to debate where to draw the line between groups).
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