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Fifty years after the experiments that made learned helplessness famous, Steven Maier and Martin Seligman wrote in Psychological Review that their original theory “got it backward”: passivity is the unlearned default response to prolonged aversive events, and what animals learn is control
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (782+ words) The 2016 paper is a synthesis of five decades of work in rats and dogs. It says the yoked animals never learned helplessness at all, and that what gets learned is control. Whether any of it explains human hopelessness remains untested....
Two researchers who measured real campfires report that firelight is bright enough to read a pair of hands, and argue that its flicker may be what disadvantaged gesture and favoured speech, while the fire itself can hide whoever sits opposite
1+ week, 1+ day ago (668+ words) A review in Proceedings of the Royal Society B argues that language itself began in fireside storytelling. It brings light meters to a question that has run for years on description alone. By The Long View · Edited by Chris Jeremia…...
In 1932, Australia sent soldiers armed with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus tearing through wheat farms — the birds scattered under fire, outran military trucks and turned what looked like an easy cull into one of history’s strangest defeats
1+ week, 3+ day ago (451+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit Three gunners stepped off the Perth train at Campion in November 1932 carrying two Lewis machine guns, ten thousand rounds of ammunition and the reasonable expectation of being home for Christmas....
Emotional tears may have evolved not merely to express sadness, but to change the behaviour of the people around us — a distress signal originating in infancy that humans carried into adult social life to recruit attention, care and protection.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1418+ words) A new evolutionary account treats adult emotional tears as an infant-derived distress signal, while experiments show support effects that are real but strongly context-dependent. By Mind & Matter · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit A line of moisture…...