Infants torn from mothers, testicles ripped off: Study describes vicious chimpanzee infighting Researchers observed intense violence between two formerly friendly sets of chimpanzees in Uganda. The findings may have implications for humans.

Two previously friendly factions within the world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees in Uganda have fallen out and are engaged in a rare case of clan warfare. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Archaeologist Eric Cline has spent his career reconstructing why, and the answer is more complex than a single catastrophic event. Cline tells us what we can learn today from that disaster about how to avoid a similar chain-effect collapse of our own civilization. 2/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCkT...

Around 1200 BC, the most sophisticated network of civilizations the ancient world had ever produced collapsed within a single generation. That late Bronze Age calamity, occurring violently and suddenly, affected Egypt, Anatolia, the Aegean, the Levant, parts of Libya, and the Balkans. 1/2

Earliest known writing dates back over 40,000 years Stone Age artifacts in Germany are editing writing's timeline.

New research indicates humans experimented with symbolic writing as much as 40,000 years ago. This recontextualizes the history of human communication, given the earliest known written languages are Mesopotamian dating back to around 3000 BCE. bit.ly/4bgcRYw

Economists have long used forecasting and predictions to approach the unknown. But the accuracy of such crystal balling is more often flawed than not—and for a variety of complex and interrelated reasons. bit.ly/4l1rmEd

In Fluke, political scientist Brian Klaas explores the phenomenon of random chance and the outsize impact it has on shaping the future. bit.ly/4eNiKOd

No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools First evidence for tool use in cattle includes a skill previously seen only in humans and chimpanzees

About a decade ago, a baker in a small mountainous village in southern Austria noticed his cow doing something unusual... My latest for @science.org about the first documented case of tool use in cattle!

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration In ‘End Times’ Peter Turchin examines the socio-economic factors that repeatedly throw societies into crisis and often violent collapse.

In his book, ‘End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration’, Russian-American complexity scientist Peter Turchin examines the interplay of factors that, he asserts, repeatedly throw societies into decay, crisis, and often violent collapse. bit.ly/3ZlYKwH

Why you should spend less time with your kids Whether it’s micromanaging playtime, constantly hovering or incessantly texting, the adult takeover of childhood has created a crisis of anxiety in both children and parents, says Lenore Skenazy, cofo...

The adult takeover of childhood has created a crisis of anxiety in both children and parents. Author Lenore Skenazy lays out the unexpected benefits of letting our kids be more “free range” — and shows why the most teachable moments happen when parents aren’t there. bit.ly/4aPoNC9

Our perception of time is inherently skewed by our self-centered view of life. But as Hugh McGilvery writes, while most of us may never grasp time’s true nature, there are things we can do to gain a less self-centered perspective—and which brings its own benefits. bit.ly/3YUI0t3

Style-Shifting: Why We Speak Differently Around Friends Style-shifting, which describes changes in our patterns of speech with people, reflects the idea that we all have multiple personas.

"Style-shifting", a linguistics term which describes changes in our patterns of speech around different people, reflects one idea in brain research that we all embody many personas that reveal themselves according to the circumstances we find ourselves in. bit.ly/4oQwJGB

Why We Should Care About Concrete Concrete underpins modern life—but its production carries a staggering environmental cost, with global demand only set to grow.

Concrete underpins modern life—but its production carries a staggering environmental cost, with global demand only set to grow. New solutions offer promising pathways to make concrete less polluting and to rethink how we build. bit.ly/48J46Fh

In their book, 'God 4.0', authors Robert Ornstein and Sally Mallam combine ancient teachings with modern science to come up with a new psychology of spiritual experience. The result is a stunning unification of science and tradition towards a revolutionary concept of self-development bit.ly/3KBknnz

Is our cherished and time-honoured understanding of male and female brains still accurate? A close look at how we embraced some of those notions to begin, with may hold the answer to this question.

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The Sufi Teaching Story For thousands of years, the Sufis have been using carefully constructed "teaching stories" to stimulate and stabilize an expanded consciousness.

An article by the late Afghan writer Idries Shah on the original purpose and little-known technical craft of storytelling for awakening human consciousness. bit.ly/3VjPebe

Given the unreliability of economic forecasts, is there a way to make our predictions in economics a little more accurate, or, at the very least, more useful? bit.ly/43kWt5Z

The Teaching Story - A Unique Literary Form In some cultures, traditional stories or “fairy tales” have several functions spanning entertainment to the refinement of perception.

In some cultures, especially those of the Middle East, stories or ‘fairy tales’ have several functions. Beyond providing entertainment, inculcating morals, and passing on culture, they also provide the basis for more advanced instruction later in life. bit.ly/4oRprCH

Our Dollar, Your Problem An American economist explains why the primacy of the US dollar has endured, while its future remains untenable owing to the debt crisis.

In OUR DOLLAR, YOUR PROBLEM Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University professor and former chief economist at the IMF, explains why the primacy of the US dollar has endured for so long, while its future remains highly untenable. bit.ly/3LmLtPf

A meta-story is a special kind of narrative. It conveys overarching insights and a bigger picture beyond the explicit tale presented. The most impactful meta-stories accustom the reader's mind to an alternate consciousness: one that is illogical, incongruous, and timeless. bit.ly/3uEYCvg

A Greek Island’s First Settlers Weren’t Human An archaeological dig on Naxos is overturning our assumptions about who Neanderthals were — and how they differed from Homo sapiens

New discoveries on the Greek island of Naxos, long thought to be uninhabited until around 7,000 years ago, is rewriting assumptions about human and Neanderthal migration, navigation and life in the Aegean. bit.ly/3W4pyhW

Can we move beyond the common human tendency to think in largely dualistic terms? The wellbeing of our societies, and even their survival, may in part, depend on it. bit.ly/3RZneWK

Although the subject of pronouns are today most associated with that strange identity fixation of the culture wars, for linguists their more normal use hold keys to understanding concealed aspects of our psychology and social relations. bit.ly/46Tmr1h

The Science of Storytelling Humans are hardwired for stories, which have served as diverse functions as encoding survival information to cultivating higher perception.

“Stories are actually a form of technology. They are tools that were designed by our ancestors to alleviate depression, reduce anxiety, kindle creativity, spark courage and meet a variety of other psychological challenges of being human.” bit.ly/3IvGgQo

For much of human history, storytelling was a spoken art. But millennia of dynamic and ever-evolving oral storytelling eventually succumbed, in different times and places, to the new tool of writing. That rendered the spoken storytelling experience as static and fixed in time. bit.ly/49o5QCJ

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn. But in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to question our assumptions, rethink our beliefs, and change our minds. bit.ly/46K1CFJ