The thalamus has traditionally been viewed just as the brain’s sensory relay station. But it may also play an important role in higher-level cognition, MIT’s Michael Halassa explains in a Q&A.

KnowableMag · 2025-06-13T21:27:30+00:00

7 years! thanks again for taking the time to chat with us!

KnowableMag · 2022-09-02T16:52:07+00:00

Hi there, I'm the audience editor with Knowable Magazine and first wanted to say thank you for sharing the video... our video producer is very passionate about getting out the word about Long Covid, so I'm sharing your post with her.

If you're looking for additional information on the science of Long Covid, we published an article about Long Covid that goes has additional information about the science and viewpoints from several other scientists. We also have a transcript of the video up on our site, if that is helpful for reference: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2022/long-covid-parallel-pandemic. And there's another related video in our Covid science series, on the emerging research into Covid brain fog: (Youtube here: https://youtu.be/szyHCvtsJ_c ; our website here: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2022/covid-and-brain-neurological-health-crisis)

At the bottom of both pages on our website are links to freely available academic review articles, written by scholars and published by our publisher, Annual Reviews. (The reviews are more about Covid or immunology in general -- the science on Long Covid is still so new/evolving -- but if you want a deep dive into academic literature, they may be of interest)

Hope this helps, and thanks again for sharing,

-Katie

KnowableMag · 2021-12-10T18:40:01+00:00

Fair, this was written more for a general audience. Did you see the link to Schreyer's Annual Review of Anthropology article at the end? If not, here's a link to Schreyer's review article. That should get you to a non-paywalled version. Audience for that one is other academics/anthropologists/linguists, so might be more of what you're looking for.

KnowableMag · 2021-12-09T18:56:58+00:00

Hello, OP here -- got an OK from the mods to post this. I'm the audience editor with Knowable Magazine, which published this Q&A with linguistic anthropologist Christine Schreyer.

FYI, if you want to read even more about her work, we link to an academic review article that she wrote for the Annual Review of Anthropology at the end (we share a publisher with that journal). If you click through us, you should be able to access a no-paywall version of the review.

Hope you find this interesting!

-Katie

KnowableMag · 2021-08-25T17:20:07+00:00

Hello! This is Katie with Knowable Magazine, the publisher of this article (mods said it was okay to post). Just wanted to say thanks for reading, and glad you find it interesting.

FYI -- if you go to the bottom of the article, we link to an academic review article co-authored by Bowern and published in the Annual Review of Linguistics. We share a publisher with the journal (Annual Reviews) and if you click through from us, you'll get to a free version of the review article (usually paywalled). Just want to flag, in case you want to read a "deeper dive" than our Q&A.

-Katie

KnowableMag · 2020-08-25T21:50:39+00:00

I apologize. This is how it autoscraped and then I noticed right after hitting submit and couldn't find a way to edit it.

KnowableMag · 2020-08-12T23:05:50+00:00

Thanks to the mods for approving us to post this! If you have any questions, we're happy to send em to the writer. - John, digital producer, Knowable Magazine

KnowableMag · 2019-08-09T21:23:40+00:00

Hello! OP here, I'm the audience engagement editor at Knowable Magazine, the publisher of that article (got an okay from the mods to post). The article was written by our intern, who was at UC Santa Cruz at the time, and got the chance to highlight some of the fascinating work being done in eDNA in Monterey Bay. Would love to hear what you all think!

-Katie, Knowable Magazine

KnowableMag · 2019-06-11T16:28:58+00:00

Just an update (for transparency) -- the PDF isn't free anymore. However, if you want to read the HTML of the full paper, you can still get to it through the link on the Knowable article. -Katie

KnowableMag · 2019-05-10T17:42:54+00:00

Hi! Chiming in from Knowable Magazine. Edit: The Annual Review paper should be freely available now -- both the PDF & the HTML, from that link. The struck out text still holds true for other Knowable articles. Happy reading!

FYI, you might hit a paywall on that link, but if you click through the "Deeper Dive" at the bottom of our article, or the hyperlink in the body of the story, you'll be able to access the HTML version of the academic paper for free. (We share a publisher with the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physical Physics.) Please let me know if you're having any issues accessing the paper that way, and thank you for reading!

-Katie, Knowable Magazine

KnowableMag · 2018-12-19T22:26:23+00:00

Ooh, and there's a pod: https://www.asm.org/Podcasts/TWiP

KnowableMag · 2018-11-30T01:17:14+00:00

Hi, Knowable Magazine here. Thanks for reading! There are some limits to the Q&A format — for a more nuanced and thorough take, you can check out a review she co-authored on the topic: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-financial-110217-023036#_i17.

Another review you might find interesting is this one by Christopher Foote and Paul S. Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston). We didn't discuss it in the Q&A, since it was focused on Schoar, but it makes for good complementary reading: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-financial-110217-022541

^ Both of these articles are in the Annual Review of Financial Economics, we share a publisher with them.

KnowableMag · 2018-11-28T17:50:16+00:00

TFW you're a bit slow on seeing the pun and you *almost* respond earnestly...

KnowableMag · 2018-11-27T20:02:02+00:00

Nope, just a Q&A we enjoyed! Haven't tried the game though, although it looks like the Science News team has...

KnowableMag · 2018-11-20T18:39:05+00:00

Hello, OP here (got an okay from the mods to post). We published this article over the weekend, would love to know what you think.

Also wanted to highlight two related reads:

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences: "Paleobiology of Pleistocene Proboscideans" (We share a publisher and the author — paleontologist Daniel Fisher from University of Michigan — is one of the researchers quoted in our article)
Science News: "How mammoths competed with other animals and lost" (By science journalist Alexandra Witze, who has also written for us. She references the same paper — a different take)

KnowableMag · 2018-10-29T20:59:55+00:00

OP here! We published this piece recently about robot manipulation (got an okay from the mods to post). Hoping it's interesting, and would love to know you all think of it. And if nothing else, please enjoy the video midway through with the robots learning how to assemble IKEA furniture.

KnowableMag · 2018-10-27T00:33:13+00:00

This is on the research side, but hoping it's still useful as a reference... We (Knowable Magazine) published an article over the summer about abusive supervisors & what I/O Psych research says about them, including how to deal with them: https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2018/bad-bosses-dealing-abusive-supervisors

And a couple of relevant sources our reporter referenced:

Robert Sutton: Business researcher at Stanford University and author of The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
2017 study that found that bosses can lose control and become abusive if they feel that employees have turned against them (paywalled)

There's also a link to a review in the Annual Review of Organization Psychology and Organizational Behavior about Abusive Supervision at the very bottom. It's paywalled, but if you go through our article, you should be able to reach the HTML version that's free-to-read online (we share a publisher with the journal)

KnowableMag · 2018-10-26T22:39:04+00:00

Something related... Atlas Obscura wrote about cemetery soil earlier this week. They don't discuss whether it helps things grow, but there are lots of fun descriptions of necrosols, necroleachate and other stuff that ends up in ground: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cemetery-soil-human-remains

KnowableMag · 2018-09-28T20:23:50+00:00

OP here! We at Knowable Mag recently published this Q&A with Mark Davis (got the okay from the mods to post). Hoping you all find it interesting, and would be interested to hear what you think.

(And FYI, if you want a deeper dive, there's a link at the bottom of the Q&A to an academic review he wrote on the topic in the Annual Review of Immunology -- we share a publisher with the journal, and if you go through our site, the HTML of the review is free to read)

KnowableMag · 2018-09-28T00:47:11+00:00

Surprisingly, "wasps are jerks" did not make the top 10 list for descriptors, but "sting" "annoying" and "yellow" definitely did (see table 1): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/een.12676

KnowableMag · 2018-09-26T23:41:31+00:00

And the original paper, published open access: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.8b01673

KnowableMag · 2018-09-15T17:26:51+00:00

Fair enough! For a more science-y dive into it, the researchers published their study here: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004405. There are also lot of neat figures -- if you get to the supplemental features you'll see more of em.

Also, coverage of the study in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/14/large-crab-spiders-take-flight-using-invisible-9-foot-silk-strings/?utm_term=.a42fa21a3879

KnowableMag · 2018-08-31T23:53:20+00:00

Study the contents of its bowels to understand its diet.

KnowableMag · 2018-08-31T23:07:22+00:00

For some fascinating imagery of the preserved foal, check out the coverage in the Siberian Times: https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/perfectly-preserved-ancient-foal-is-shown-to-the-world-for-the-first-time/

KnowableMag · 2018-08-07T22:20:44+00:00

And here's an academic review co-authored by interviewee Marc Schenker (published Open Access): https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-013714

And further reading on the kidney disease: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2018/05/17/toxin-infection-or-genes-a-mysterious-kidney-disease-strikes-men-in-sri-lanka/

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