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Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System | Emergence Magazine
by Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer’s groundbreaking work has long emphasized the sentience and wisdom of plants. In this multimedia essay, she takes us on the nine-thousand-year journey of maize, reflecting on what has been severed in our once … Continue reading
The Hidden Pattern Behind Earth’s Biggest Disasters
[…] Scientists from New York University and the Carnegie Institution of Science analyzed 89 major geological events from the past 260 million years—everything from mass extinctions to volcanic activity, sea-level fluctuations to continental plate shifts. And far from being totally … Continue reading
Why Does Rubbing Tired Eyes Feel Good?
It can be a wonderful feeling to give your tired eyes a good rub. And rubbing your eyes can help keep them moist, but it turns out it also can affect your heart rate. Hosted by: Michael Aranda
Researchers Discover 1,000-Year-Old Burial of Elite Nonbinary Warrior | My Modern Met
A reconstruction drawing of the Iron Age grave of a nonbinary individual. (Photo: Veronika Paschenko/University of Turku) This discovery of a nonbinary burial is important for understanding Scandinavian notions of gender hundreds of years ago. In 1968, workers digging … Continue reading
Your Brain Stays Half Awake When You Sleep in a New Place
Turns out that your brain is on “night watch.” Have you ever woken up after sleeping in a new place and felt as if you hardly slept at all? This phenomenon is called the First-Night Effect (FNE), referring to the … Continue reading
Water Turned Into a Golden Metallic Substance Using New Experiment
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new experiment that turned water into a golden metal Press release: https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbi… Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… Philip E. Mason’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdz18… […]
Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos
My PhD: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/… It is a common view that “if only someone could break this down and explain it clearly enough, more students would understand.” Khan Academy is a great example of this approach with its clear, concise videos on … Continue reading
Why you can expect to live past your life expectancy
This is our submission to the #VeritasiumContest Length restriction is one minute, so apologies for the brevity. I’ll have a longer video about life expectancy and how COVID affected it later. Info about the contest is here: here https://www.veritasium.com/contest Contact … Continue reading
How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
[…] In the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the universal wavefunction is the reality, encompassing all possible histories and futures and all exist. But we are only sensitive to a slice of the wavefunction corresponding to our “world”, and … Continue reading
Studying the Brain with… Quantum Mechanics?
Quantum mechanics may not seem like it has anything to do with human psychology, but some psychologists are starting to borrow concepts from the field to help make human behavior more predictable. Hosted by: Hank Green […]
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