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5 days ago · My 2021 book The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press), winner of the 2023 Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, tracks the long history of the human relationship with water and soil, and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human decisions.
Jun 12, 2024 · “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert. Elizabeth Kolbert examines the current mass extinction event caused by human activities, exploring the devastating impact on...
Jun 27, 2024 · Social Darwinism is a theory developed in the 19th century that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
Jun 14, 2024 · Congratulations to Dr. Ruth Mostern whose The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2021) was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in the pre-1900 category by the Association for Asian Studies.
Jun 13, 2024 · Unveiling a pioneering new way of viewing our collective history – one that weaves together psychological experiments, on-the-ground fieldwork, and big data – Harvey Whitehouse introduces three evolved biases that shape human behaviour conformism, religiosity, and tribalism.
6 days ago · uncanny valley, theorized relation between the human likeness of an object and a viewer’s affinity toward it. The hypothesis originated in a 1970 essay by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori, in which he proposed that as human likeness increases in an object’s design, so does one’s affinity for the object—but only to a certain point.
