In my opinion, this kind of ‘science communication’ is more misleading than enlightening because it fails to alert readers to the fact that the topic is actually more complicated and gives the impression that the author considers readers too stupid to understand a more accurate explanation.
All people are composed of multiple parts, being a body, a mind, and a soul. These parts of the self are all subject to highs and lows that need to be tended to, or kept healthy. When trying to keep the body healthy, we generally know to exercise, eat goo.
New evidence indicates that Arctic areas with the thickest ice today probably melted out every year during the summer for about 1,600 years during the early Holocene (ca. 11.3-9.7k years ago), making the Arctic virtually ice-free. As I argue in my new book, this means that polar bears and other Arctic species are capable of…