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Robby Berman
Contributing Writer
I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
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A study finds that conflicting points of view are more likely to lead to dehumanizing others if they're written and not spoken.
A new study shows that oxytocin plays a similar role in dogs’ emotions as it does in humans.
A reappraisal of the Chinese Dali skull suggest a more prominent role for China in early human history.
For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.
Predatory journals are so busy scamming scholars that seven big ones appointed a dog posing as a PhD to review submissions.
Geologists find that when the earth’s spin slows as it has recently, major earthquake activity follows.
The first in-body gene-editing experiment has just begun.
A new study links multiple sex partners and smoking to head and neck, or oropharyngeal, cancer.
A new Credit Suisse report shows 27% growth since 2008 in the world’s wealth, with a disproportionately large share going to the already wealthy.
Which is worse? Alcohol or marijuana?
USC successfully tests an implanted memory prosthesis that improves biological human memory.
AI is leaving human needs and democracy behind in its race to accomplish its current profit-generating goals.
Canadian authorities have decided that the f-word is acceptable language for French Canadian broadcasts.
Breakthrough gene therapy allows doctors to replace 80% of an epidermolysis bullosa patient’s skin.
DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
Is moral superiority the reason American society is so polarized?
The way that hits are now calculated, impossibly long albums may be on the horizon.
A new study links conventionally produced fruits and vegetables to lower odds of live birth.
The man who first demonstrated the power of neural networks introduces capsule networks.