We think of our beds, and our bedrooms, as the most intimate, personal part of our house. The bedroom is the room that is closed off if we have guests in our house, and inviting someone into your bedroom has certain… connotations. But it hasn’t always been thus. Throughout human history, beds were often more […]
What’s New in the Science of What’s Old
In 1879, German naturalist Ernst Haeckel drew his version of a “Genealogical Tree of Humanity” to show how human beings are related to other species of animals on the earth. The tall, slender, tree rendered by Haeckel has a distinct hierarchy: “monera” or single-celled animals at the bottom, mammals at the top, and at the […]
