An Octopus and MDMA, Legacy of Urban Industry & New Orleans Sinking
An Octopus and MDMA, Legacy of Urban Industry & New Orleans Sinking
Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses—and What Happened Was Profound
Despite our vastly different brains, social behavior is built into the very molecules coded by our DNA, Dölen explained.
An octopus doesn’t have a cortex, and doesn’t have a reward circuit, and yet it’s able to respond to MDMA and produce the same effects, in an animal with a totally different brain organization.
The Toxic Legacy of Urban Industry
A new book explores the unseen hazards left behind in post-industrial American cities.
Roughly 50 percent of greater New Orleans lies above sea level. That’s the good news. The bad news: It used to be 100 percent, before engineers accidentally sank half the city below the level of the sea.
The Future Is in Africa, and China Knows It
Fast population growth offers some great investment opportunities, but the West is missing out.
They say you can’t teach old dogs new tricks, but new research shows you can teach an old rat new sounds, even if the lesson doesn’t stick very long.