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Miss Todd
It’s 1909, and the whole world is waking to the possibilities of flight. Miss Todd dreams of flying, but she’s got more than gravity holding her down. This is the story of her determination, her perseverance, and her passion – … Continue reading
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – the forgotten immunisation pioneer | The Conversation
Tom Solomon Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool Wortley Montagu popularised the Turkish practice of ‘variolation’, kickstarting the … Continue reading
Why Getting Dizzy Breaks Your Brain (Temporarily)
We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question “why do we get dizzy?” and in the process we learned about some very strange and … Continue reading
African Countries NOT IN Africa
How much African ancestry does one have to have in order to be considered black and what percentage has to meet this criteria in order to be considered a black nation? Millions of Africans have been emigrating to Europe and … Continue reading
Top 10 Poisonous Plants in the UK | THIS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!
Being outside is fantastic for your mental health but there are some noxious weeds that can be dangerous to your health… some even lethal. Some could be growing in your garden, local woodland or even near to a child’s play … Continue reading
Visualization of How Fast a Ball Drops on Various Solar System Bodies | Kottke
This is an animation of how quickly an object falls 1 km to the surfaces of solar system objects like the Earth, Sun, Ceres, Jupiter, the Moon, and Pluto. For instance, it takes 14.3 seconds to cover that distance on … Continue reading
Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there | Donald Hoffman
Galileo was quite controversial, in part, because he argued that Earth moved around the sun, despite people’s senses deluding them that the world was static. Evolution may have primed us to see the world in terms of payoffs rather than … Continue reading
Trevor Kennison – Day 1
January 4th, 2020 was the first day that Trevor Kennison ventured into the backcountry as an adaptive athlete. A snowboarding accident at Vail Pass, CO just over five years prior had taken away the use of his legs, leaving him … Continue reading
Covid-19: why your life will never be the same again | The Economist
Across much of the world, covid-19 restrictions are starting to ease. The Economist has crunched the data to calculate how close countries are to pre-pandemic levels of normality—but will life ever be the same again? Read more here: https://econ.st/3AG9siz Search … Continue reading
A Scientist Explains My Eye Disease! ft. It’s Okay To Be Smart
Watch the video we did on Echolocation! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08smC… Talking to my Eye Specialist about my Vision Loss: https://youtu.be/37yuL5NItCI Special thanks to: Dr. Bryan Jones Dr. Lauren Ayton Slater Ben Shaberman & The Foundation Fighting Blindness Foundation fighting blindness is … Continue reading
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