In schoolyards worldwide, the phrase “you run like a girl” is often used as an insult. We are used to seeing male athletes jump higher, lift heavier weights, and run faster than female athletes due...
Certain concepts simply irk me. They are often needlessly complicated and their meaning gets distorted in an attempt to make them understandable.
Take, for example, the idea of a Mitochondrial Eve.
Sometimes a highly credentialed person steeped in the sciences has a misleading epiphany and makes a 90-degree course correction, building a large following of people who resonate with their new...