Tag: study
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Studying woodpeckers is helping prevent brain trauma
“When you’re hit on the football field, parts of your brain may fizz like a just-opened can of soda.” The brain released humans from the prison of biology.So why do we do anything that damages our ability to think? Because of sports like football that entertain. However, a new technology designed to mimic a woodpecker’s shock-absorbing beak…
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Margaret Mead’s Sources of Insight
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who famously journeyed to American Samoa in 1925 to study adolescent behavior among the nonliterate peoples of Oceania. Her book Coming of Age of Samoa is the result of her fieldwork. Mead was also widely known for her progressive views on sex, providing a key spark on what…