The article discusses various new publications that delve into the understanding of memory, environmental impacts of conflict, and risk management. Greene and Murphy present memory as a dynamic construction of human behavior, contrasting with traditional views of memory as a fixed record. Tsymbalyuk highlights the environmental devastation from Russia's assault on Ukraine, detailing the aftermath of the Kakhovka Dam breach. Harrison and Ross examine human risk management evolution through the lens of stable elephant memories, using an extensive study of global risk-taking behaviors influenced by socioeconomic factors.
Molecular biologists examine memory through neurotransmitters such as dopamine; neuroscientists through groups of cells working in concert; and psychologists through organismal activity as a whole.
'I wish the subject of this book and the need to write it had never existed,' writes researcher and artist Darya Tsymbalyuk at the start of her study of the environmental cost of the assault that Russia launched on Ukraine in 2022.
'Humans traded that off for powerful imaginations,' write economists Glenn Harrison and Don Ross in their 'natural history of risk management' from prehistory to today.
They discuss their team's experiments on risk-taking in some 40,000 volunteers from around the world, who had varying levels of wealth, income and education, as well as 6 elephants in South Africa.
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