This little monster is the key to how our brain sees our body… Although the idea of homunculus has been around for centuries, in science it is used as a diagram to express how our brains get information from the...

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Run, jump and recoil like your best bud is a bear in the forest Keeping kids’ feet bare helps that sensory feedback whizz from feet to brains, growing brainy feet. But it also helps grow footy brains: and by this...

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"Fire is nothing more than the sun unwinding itself from the wood." - Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller The taming of fire was a defining moment for the human species. We know our distant ancestors; Homo erectus and the Neanderthals...

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“Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.” - Horace Kephart. What was the sound that heralded the arrival of mankind? Perhaps, about two and a half million years...

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