Category Archives: Nature

 So you’re too ethical to eat meat; but should cows go extinct? – Aeon

Photo by Martijn-Nijenhuis/Flickr   Neil Levy is a senior research fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (2014). He lives … Continue reading

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Striped Eel Catfish Traverse the Ocean Floor as a Strategically Rotating Mass

Foryoung striped eel catfish, there really is safety in numbers. A recent Instagram post shares a video by Marie-Laure Vergne of about one hundred juvenile fish moving across the bottom of the ocean. The Abyss Dive Center, a scuba diving … Continue reading

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Why is cotton in everything? – Michael R. Stiff

Dig into the science of how cotton transforms from seed to fiber, and how these cotton fibers are used to make everything from fabrics, to currency, and fishing nets. — Centuries ago, the Inca developed ingenuous suits of armor that … Continue reading

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Sanderlings and sand dunes — Dear Kitty. Some blog

After 17 January 2020 in the Schoorlse Duinen nature reserve came 18 January. When we walked towards the North Sea, as this photo shows. It is a Lensbaby photo, like all photos of this blog post. The morning had started … Continue reading

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Tortoises Have Amazing Long-Term Memory and Greatly Underestimated Intelligence

Described as “living rocks,” giant land tortoises are lumbering beasts with a reputation for being sluggish in both speed and brainpower. But new research carried out by scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) suggests we have greatly … Continue reading

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50 Fascinating Pics Of Rarely Seen Things

Glasswing Butterfly From a grain of sand magnified 300 times to a butterfly that’s half male, half female, we included both the common and the rare. This way, you’ll be able to rediscover the ordinary and expand your world view.[…] … Continue reading

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International Mountain Day

International Mountain Day is an occasion to create a large social movement that can bring mountain issues on the tables of politicians and society in general around the world. Natural jewels we should treasure Mountains are home of the 15% … Continue reading

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New Animal Endangerment Map shows global distribution of threatened – Inhabitat

Today’s wildlife are in peril, facing a variety of threats that test their survivability.  To illustrate the crisis magnitude, a new Animal Endangerment Map has been presented that reflects the conservation status of globally threatened species. […] Source: New Animal Endangerment Map shows … Continue reading

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My State of Consciousness: Lucid Dreaming | Habiba Awada | TEDxPhoeniciaU

While we are mostly unaware of our nightly dreams while we dream, Tim Post has trained countless individuals around the world to attain dream awareness in dreams. Remarkably, “lucid” dreamers can learn to consciously reshape their dreams while dreaming and … Continue reading

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Why Japan Isn’t Cutting Down Enough of its Trees

Life Where I’m From Go to https://teamtrees.org and lets get some trees planted! #teamtrees I started off making this nice video about how Japan got its forests back through afforestation. Then I did too much researching on the Internet and … Continue reading

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