Erica Goode

Oct 20, 2024 | inverse.com | Erica Goode

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, solve problems, communicate, and form complicated relationships, investigators have found. Any number of books — think of Ed Yong’s “An Immense World” or Marc Bekoff’s “The Emotional Lives of Animals” — have been dedicated to exploring these relatively recently recognized abilities.

Oct 10, 2024 | undark.org | Erica Goode

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, they solve problems, they communicate and form complicated relationships, investigators have found. Any number of books — think of Ed Yong’s “An Immense World” or Marc Bekoff’s “The Emotional Lives of Animals” — have been dedicated to exploring these relatively recently recognized abilities.

Aug 22, 2024 | undark.org | Erica Goode

Many years ago, I read a book about neurosurgery by a journalist who had undergone an operation for a brain hemorrhage. One anecdote is still vivid in my memory: a story about a neurosurgical resident who was slowly drilling a burr hole in a patient’s skull when the drill suddenly jammed and then broke through, plunging the equipment into the brain and killing the patient. No such misadventure is included in “Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery,” although the author, Theodore H.

Mar 27, 2024 | nwf.org | Erica Goode

Are Entomologists as Endangered as the Insects They Study? All life depends on insects. As many species decline and others—including disease carriers—relocate, the entomologists who study them are becoming endangered. By Erica Goode Conservation Mar 28, 2024 At Maryland’s Patuxent Research Refuge, insect taxonomist Sam Droege scouts for bees amid native vegetation.

Mar 13, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Erica Goode |Yaya Azariah Clarke |It’s Nice That |Meagan Saliashvili

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Erica Goode, Undark“But that doesn’t mean something is wrong. ‘The problem isn’t your memory, it’s that we have the wrong expectations for what memory is for in the first place,’ Ranganath writes in his introduction, a theme that he returns to throughout the book.