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Why Genetic Engineering Can’t Do Everything (Yet)
[…] We’ve made some great strides in understanding the human genome, but before we can tackle genetic engineering, we have some “chicken and egg” problems to figure out. Hosted by: Hank Green […]
Groundbreaking earthquake discovery: Risk models overlook an important element | News, University of Copenhagen
Haitian earthquake. Photo: Getty GEOLOGY Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. This new knowledge should be incorporated in computer models … Continue reading
Marta Halina: Charting Animal Cognition
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal cognition could help us get past our biases when assessing the minds of nonhuman beings. More on this video: aeon.co/videos/how-a-periodic-table-of-animal-intelligence-could-help-to-root-out-human-bias Watch more on Aeon: aeon.co/video Subscribe: vimeo.com/aeonvideo Interviewer: Sally Davies Producer: Kellen Quinn Cinematographer: … Continue reading
Timing the first human migration into eastern Asia | PubMed Central
Roscoe Stanyon,1 Marco Sazzini,2 and Donata Luiselli2 Figure 1 A simplified scenario of early human migration routes and dates. Modern humans originated in Africa, probably around 200,000 years ago (200 KYA). One or more routes out of Africa are possible, … Continue reading
A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | TED
Over the course of hundreds of scuba dives, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson fell in love — with a fish. In this ode to parrotfish, she shares five reasons why these creatures are simply amazing (from their ability to poop … Continue reading
The elegant physics experiment to decode the nature of reality | Aeon Essays
Photo by Andrea Buso/Gallery Stock How a sunbeam split in two became physics’ most elegant experiment, shedding light on the underlying nature of reality Imagine throwing a baseball and not being able to tell exactly where it’ll go, despite … Continue reading
5 Times Evolution Should Have Planned Ahead
Natural selection can lead to some pretty amazing adaptations, but sometimes the resulting traits aren’t the most efficient solutions to the problems at hand. With the bar set to “good enough,” here are some features that arose from evolution which … Continue reading
How Do We Read? It’s Magic (Almost)
[…] Reading. You’re doing it right now. I bet you don’t even have to think about it. But have you ever wondered what’s happening in your brain to turn all these weird symbols into meaning? This video will teach you … Continue reading
Why evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network | Aeon Essays
The coral reef surrounding Sand Cay No 6, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Photo by David Doubilet Classic evolutionary theory holds that species separate over time. But it’s fuzzier than that – now we know they also merge I remember … Continue reading
99 Years Later… We Solved It
How do these rocks move on their own in the desert? […]
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