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These characters and stories matter because they are part of the rich cultural tapestry of a complex society. Can you imagine a world in which America had no common cultural reference points or amusing diversions? While I weep for a world in which Paris Hilton has more recognition than Sen. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), I can’t help but truly believe that we live in a culture with high expectations. Movies, television, books, and music—and the legions of people who bring them to you—challenge us in ways we don?...
Chimps are smart, but humans are a lot smarter. Until now, there have been two competing ideas to explain why. The general-intelligence theory says that our bigger and more complex brains give us an overall edge. The cultural-intelligence hypothesis, by contrast, says that humans have specific areas of intelligence where we excel; our brains are not just bigger, but also better than those of our nearest evolutionary relatives...
...across the board, on both types of task, it would have supported the "just generally smarter overall" theory. The fact that the children excelled in specific areas suggest it's the other theory that's right - that our ability to cooperate and share expertise has allowed us to build complex societies, collaborate and learn from each other at a high level, and use symbolic representation (writing, numerals, imagery) to communicate ideas...
...sense of how The Sopranos changed television, get a pen and make a list of the 20 best TV dramas before 1999. This Mafia saga showed just how complex and involving TV storytelling could be, inspiring an explosion of ambitious dramas on cable and off. In Tony Soprano's world, it wasn't the Mob that kept pulling you back into old, destructive patterns; it was your family--your controlling mother, your maddening wife, your feckless kids. Meanwhile, the big-F Family drama of the declining Mafia business offered popcorn entertainment alongside the deeper insights. Some fans may have hated...
Forget donating one's body to science--biologist J. Craig Venter mapped his entire genetic code, marking the first time a single person's genome has been plotted. The sequence, more complete and complex than the 2001 human-genome model, is a glimpse at a future in which individuals can mine their DNA for medical information...