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Is the colour in space images “real”?
Are you fascinated by beautiful pictures of objects in space but always left wondering whether the colour shown is “real”? This video is all about how astronomers use colour in images to best highlight the physics that is going on … Continue reading
What Is A Dinosaur And What Isn’t?
There’s a lot of confusion out there about what is and isn’t a dinosaur. And you’d be forgiven for being kinda confused. Maybe paleontologists are just messing with us. Or… maybe the question of what is and isn’t a dinosaur … Continue reading
Has confinement turned us all into hikikomori? – ScienceBlog.com
After two months of lockdown, have we become like the hikikomori – the Japanese youngsters who choose to live in isolation, shunning the outside world? Natacha Vellut, a psychosociologist at the CERMES3 laboratory and co-author of a book on the … Continue reading
BBC Sounds – Rethink, Jarvis Cocker: Rethinking an Environmental Revolution
Jarvis contemplates what might awaken us to our duty as stewards of the Earth. … Continue reading
Floating Black Balloons Explore Contradictions in Artist Tadao Cern’s Installations
Artist Tadao Cern often considers dualities and contradictions—lightness and heaviness, minimal and intricate, inanimate and lively. He channels these relational tensions into “BB,” installations featuring black balloons that float in parallel planes and incline in rows. “These boundaries are a … Continue reading
How Birds Really See the World
Ever wonder what it looks like from a birds-eye-view? Hank explains they see more than you think!
Signs of Life (a short film)
“Signs of Life” captures light, beauty, clarity and life found in the darkness of the COVID-19 quarantine days. This film was captured and created in 4 days (including the music) for a competition. Created by Kelly Campelia (a.k.a. FIRELADY) Music … Continue reading
The ungoverned globe | Aeon
Benjamin Studebaker is a graduate teaching assistant in politics and international studies at the University of Cambridge and a teaching associate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The end of the liberal order would unleash chaos; its continuance means … Continue reading
Meet Me At The Stairs
Ten years ago at the age of 21, I underwent a procedure that saved my life. A kidney transplant. My father donated one of his kidneys to someone that neither of us knew for me to receive a healthy organ, … Continue reading
Black Lives Matter Protests Around the World
Protesters of all ages, all races, all backgrounds are showing up at Black Lives Matter protests out of love for their fellow human beings. Out of love for George Floyd. Out of love for Breonna Taylor. Out of love for … Continue reading
Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow
Special thanks to: Prof. Beverley McKeon and team https://www.mckeon.caltech.edu Destin from Smarter Every Day https://www.youtube.com/smartereveryday Nicole Sharp from FYFD https://ve42.co/fyfd I got into turbulent flow via chaos. The transition to turbulence sometimes involves a period doubling. Turbulence itself is chaotic … Continue reading
Prof Alice Roberts: Why hasn’t evolution made the perfect body?
Alice Roberts, Professor of Public Engagement in Science here at the University, talks about how we are evolved beings, why natural selection doesn’t create perfection and our latest Birmingham Heroes campaign: 21st Century Bodies. You can find out more about … Continue reading
