by Peter | Jun 26, 2025 | archaeologists, human ingenuity, skill
BBC News 26/6/2025, Helen Briggs The world’s oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time. The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to be 40,000 years old....
by Peter | Apr 4, 2025 | confusion, left-right, neuro-divergent
“This is when I began to understand neurodiversity, because I couldn’t tell my left from my right.” [BBC Sounds R4 April 3rd 2025 This Cultural Life – Abi Morgan about 3’20” into interview] Once upon stating that you couldn’t tell...
by Peter | Feb 28, 2025 | asteroid, building blocks, life, right - left
The story about right and left structures extends to the origins of life on Earth. To quote from a recent article in Nature 29 January 2025 Fragments collected from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks for life — all five nucleobases that form DNA and RNA...
by Peter | Jan 27, 2025 | adult, assessment model, child, welfare agencies
As long ago as 1971 Lourie & Lourie summarised child-help [agencies]: “as being a confused set of fragmented services…We parcel children out to institutions on the basis of social, legal, and sometimes diagnostic labels that neither describe the child nor...
by Peter | Jan 21, 2025 | interaction, punishment, therapy, violent minds
The body and mind are a single system, yet most therapists treat them as separate entities with obvious trreament limitations. A commentary on BBC Radio 4’s Reith Lecture No. 4. “Can we change Violent Minds?” by forensic psychiatrist, Dr Gwen Adshead, But first...
