Evolutionary thinkers have long argued that humans evolved to notice snakes, which might explain why these creatures slither into a vast number of mythologies, from Quetzalcoatl in Mexico and Damballa in West Africa to celestial dragons in China.
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Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Obsess Over Concept-to-Execution Speed – The market punishes slow thinkers.
The sages imagined the world itself as a structure left open to the north, a reminder that there are always cracks through which danger, chaos, and suffering can enter.
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Barry Gelman,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
Those nostalgic notes evoke the minty hues of the 1950s and the earthy sages that were popular in the 1970s.
This is consistent with earlier studies showing high levels of total tau in fetal brains with peak levels at around four to five months of gestation and then decreasing two-foldby the sixth month after birth.
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Robert Martone,
Scientific American,
10 Oct. 2025
For years, costumers have been creating spooky serial killers—from Ghostface to Michael Myers—and conjuring up original designs that remain seared into our brains (and promt some of us to look under the bed each night).
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