How Narcissistic Leaders Destroy From Within | Stanford University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain May 1, 2020 (Phys.org) -- When the person at the top is malignant and self-serving, unethical behavior cascades through the organization and becomes legitimized. What traits ...

On the Far Side of Silence | John Michael Greer

April 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last few months I’ve been discussing the forgotten (or, rather, systematically ignored) history of American occultism, partly because it’s interesting in it ...

A Place For Books | John Michael Greer

Dec. 4, 2019 (Eco.Sophia.net) -- As one of my readers pointed out last week -- tip of the hat to Patricia Mathews -- we’ve now embarked on the most sacred season of the American year, the season of S ...

The Dream of a Managed Society | John Michael Greer

Plato. Luni marble, copy of the portrait made by Silanion ca. 370 BC for the Academia in Athens. From the sacred area in Largo Argentina.August 21, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- My essay here two weeks ago ...

How people engage with science can promote unbelief or beliefs about God | Arizona State University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 18, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- Most Americans believe science and religion are incompatible, but a recent study suggests that scientific engagement can actually promote be ...

Polling data suggest gender stereotypes have significantly changed since 1940s | American Psychological Association

July 18, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Women have come a long way in the United States over the last 70 years, to the point where they are now seen as being as competent as men, if not more so, according to res ...

Characterizing the 'arrow of time' in open quantum systems | Talia Ogliore

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 8, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Even in the strange world of open quantum systems, the arrow of time points steadily forward -- most of the time. New experiments conducted at Was ...

Live Fruit Fly Brains Reveal Molecular Switch That Wakes Up Dormant Neural Stem Cells

Small (dormant) and enlarged (reactivated) neural stem cells expressing membrane-tagged GFP (green) and the cell cycle marker Cyclin B (red) in the young Drosophila fruit fly larval brain. Credit: Un ...

Study shows how the nervous system can transmit information across multiple generations | Tel Aviv University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 6, 2019 (Phys.org) -- A new Tel Aviv University study finds a mechanism exhibited in nematodes that allows the nervous system cells -- neurons -- to communicate with ge ...

What organizes the genome in the nucleus? | Ludwig Maximilian

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 6, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Spatial separation of active from inactive fractions of the genome in the cell nucleus is crucial for gene expression control. A new study uncover ...

Danger avoidance can be genetically encoded for four generations, biologists say | Princeton University

Princeton University researchers Rebecca Moore, Rachel Kaletsky and Coleen Murphy have discovered that learned behaviors can be inherited for multiple generations in C. elegans, transmitted from pare ...