Listen to Be Who You Want by Christian Jarrett for free with an Audible trial.Listen to Christian on the Instant Genius podcast.And it’s all based on psychological research, so you have the best chance of making the changes stick. If you have a specific goal in mind – say, to be more extraverted to help you succeed at work – then there are techniques that will help you achieve it. It’s not quite as simple as setting a few New Year’s resolutions and turning your whole life around, but neuroscientist Dr Christian Jarrett argues that, with enough time and effort, you can change aspects of your personality. ![]() Well, maybe it’s true for leopards, but for humans, not necessarily. They say that a leopard never changes its spots. Listen to Superior by Angela Saini for free with an Audible trial.Listen to Angela on the Science Focus Podcast.Saini follows the story all the way through to the present day, exploring why race science is rising again, and how it feeds dangerous far-right beliefs. In Superior, Angela Saini takes us through the history of race science, starting with the inception of race as a concept – which, by the way, has no basis in science. Buy the Some Assembly Required audiobook from AmazonĮugenics and the study of racial differences were rejected after WWII, but unfortunately, that doesn’t mean their ideas ceased to have any influence on society.Listen to Neil on the Science Focus Podcast.In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin – co-discoverer of Tiktaalik, a ‘missing link’ between fish and land animals – explains how these changes came about. Big evolutionary changes happen by a different mechanism altogether: repurposing features that already exist. How did dinosaurs develop wings for flight, and how did fish evolve lungs to breathe on land? The answer is that the questions are wrong. ![]() But somewhere along the line, modern species’ ancient ancestors must have made enormous evolutionary leaps to make these changes possible. We often hear that birds are descended from dinosaurs, and all land animals descended from fish.
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