#Natural selection

Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama Among the Big Five Personality Traits, certain traits like extraversion and emotional stability are generally viewed as positive and so people tend to prefer these trait dimensions as opposed to their counterparts. However, these traits are found to be

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Successful adaptation requires a willingness to accept the risks of experimentation, innovation, flexibility and failure. The idea that the pace of change in technology, the economy and society is accelerating is increasingly self-evident. That

Author: Robby Berman / Source: Big Think Natural selection as a means of evolution is generally thought of as a slow process, and it usually is. That is, unless there’s some unnaturally strong influence at work. And that’s exactly what’s happening to African elephants. The unnatural influence is

Today, what survives on Earth can be determined entirely by human beings. We can alter the genetics of almost any life form and potentially design entirely new ones. According to renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, “In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as

A Missouri man was burning garbage in a field when the fire began to rage out of control, so he did the only thing he could think of to extinguish the raging flames: drive over the fire with his van. As if that wasn’t already a poorly conceived plan with the van of course having rubber tires and a