Por ocasião do tricentenário do nascimento de Immanuel Kant (1724-2024), este artigo examina a teoria Umwelt de Jakob von Uexküll como um exemplo único da influência do pensamento de Kant na biologia ...

Have you ever felt like you’re spending your life trying to live up to others’ expectations? Well, you might want to give the funeral theory a read. The “funeral theory” has been trending across ...

Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...

Birds, the warm-blooded and feathered vertebrates, are being used to put romantic partners to the test. A relationship experiment dubbed the "bird theory" is making the rounds on social media. It ...

One reason politicians get such a bad rap is that so many depict themselves as having pure, noble motives on high-profile issues while being unrepentant, undemocratic bullies when there are fewer ...

There’s something particularly horrific in imagining a sea creature dying by drowning; it’s unnatural, contradictory. Visualizing the ropes of the nets twisting around the necks of these animals, ...

As far as rock stardom goes, Grizzly Bear was never an obvious candidate. A Brooklyn-based band that formed in 2002, it specialized in subtlety—delicate riffs, choir-like singing, meandering melodies.

In Emily Adrian’s “Seduction Theory,” two married creative writing professors have parallel affairs, with very different outcomes. By Hannah Pittard Hannah Pittard is the author, most recently, of the ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

Whether or not you’ve heard the term “queer theory,” it’s likely to have impacted some aspect of your life. Click through to learn what queer theory is, how it’s used, and who has been involved with ...