How much do we know about our cousins in the evolutionary tree of life? A tooth belonging to a nine year old Neanderthal child was found in an area much farther from where we thought Neanderthals roamed, and its discovery has also challenged our exclusive claim to a kind of stone age technology. This discovery could mean that modern humans and Neanderthals coexisted — perhaps mingled — with each other more than we thought.
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Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
