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Visualizing the World’s Fertility Rate over 200 years
Starting in the 20th century, the fertility rates of the world went crashing down. In just one or two generations nations went from 7 or 8 babies per woman on average to 1 or 2. In this video we visualize … Continue reading
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
60 Euphemisms for Death! | Otherwords
For more word-nerdery, subscribe to Storied!: http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_sub No topic is as universally avoided–yet universally unavoidable–as DEATH. So, it’s got a lot of euphemisms in virtually every language. Otherwords is a new PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into … 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
Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets | The Smithsonian Magazine
Joshua Levine, Photographs by Christian Als In 1950, Tollund Man’s discoverers “found a face so fresh they could only suppose they had stumbled on a recent murder.” Christian Als High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates … Continue reading
Contemporary drag and fruity sculpture: Turner Prize 2022 shortlist announced | The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris 12 April 2022 From top left, clockwise: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Sin Wai Kin, Veronica Ryan. Photos: Rory Van Millingen; Emile Holbar; Vic Lentaigne; Steven Probert © Veronica Ryan, courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. The nominees … Continue reading
Ostrich Theory (2020)
Something is coming. Nobody cares. A pre-pandemic harbinger of indifference to troubled times, digitally depopulating and re-orchestrating documentary footage frame-by-frame before lockdowns became reality. Busy scenes shot in early 2017 were meticulously rotoscoped over a three-year period, often involving recreation/reanimation … 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
Spiders Don’t Have Ears, But They Can Boost Their ‘Hearing’ Through Giant Webs | Science Alert
DAVID NIELD 2 APRIL 2022 Steve Satushek/The Image Bank/Getty Images Cool. Spider webs are essential for capturing food – but they might also be used as giant hearing aidsfor the arachnids that spin them, according to new research. Spiders don’t … Continue reading
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