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Songbugs – The stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds | Twenty Thousand Hertz
Art by Jon McCormack. This episode was written and produced by Leila Battison. Why do bugs make the sounds they do? And how do they make them? In this episode, we explore the un-bee-lievable world of insect sounds, including crickets … Continue reading
‘QBism’: quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will | The Conversation
In a In a cubist painting, reality is more than a single perspective can capture. wikipedia, CC BY-SA According to a school of thought known as QBism, quantum mechanics is a guide to action. What does quantum mechanics, the most … Continue reading
DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses
I now have a series of videos doing a deep dive into ERVs on the “Stated Casually” channel. Check it out here: • Did God put Endog… Here we explore the amazing discovery of Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) in our own … Continue reading
Evolution’s Hidden Wildcard: The Single-Cell Bottleneck
#Evolution, #Darwin, #Mystery The paper this video is based on can be found here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas… The zygote is a single cell with half its DNA from the mother, and half from the father. Why is it that we gamble everything … Continue reading
Great Mysteries of Physics 5: will we ever have a fundamental theory of life and consciousness? | The Conversation
metamorworks/Shutterstock Life may be using quantum mechanics to its advantage. What’s the difference between a living collection of matter, such as a tortoise, and an inanimate lump of it, such as a rock? They are, after all, both just made … Continue reading
Ctenophore: Scientists identify jellyfish-like animal as the oldest living creature on Earth | CBBC
Experts believe they first emerged up to 700 million years ago – compared to dinosaurs which only appeared around 230 million years ago. Scientists in America have discovered the oldest living creature on our planet. Experts have confirmed that it … Continue reading
You can slow down aging with zero weird tricks | Dr Morgan Levine
Former Yale professor Morgan Levine explains how to calculate your ‘bio age’ to live longer. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► / @bigthink Up next, Michio Kaku: How to reverse aging ► • Michio Kaku: How … How old … Continue reading
Nobel Prize-winning scientist defines life | Paul Nurse
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► / @bigthink Up next, You can slow down aging with zero weird tricks ► • You can slow down… What is … Continue reading
Skeptic Check: Shroom with a View | Big Picture Science
Monday, May 15, 2023 – 09:00 Magic mushrooms – or psilocybin – may be associated with tripping hippies and Woodstock, but they are now being studied as new treatments for depression and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Is this Age of … Continue reading
Is it normal to talk to yourself?
Dig into the psychological benefits of positive self-talk, and find out when it can become problematic. — Being caught talking to yourself can feel embarrassing, and some people even stigmatize this behavior as a sign of mental instability. But decades … Continue reading
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