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4 Levels of Paella: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious
We challenged chefs of three different skill levels – amateur Onika, home cook Daniel, and professional chef Frank Proto from The Institute Of Culinary Education – to prepare a piping hot paella (yes, Frank finally gets to make paella!) Once … Continue reading
What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers | Aeon
Robert Launay Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University A 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is … Continue reading
How Kenya is flooding in a drought | It’s Complicated
For more than 10 years, Kenya’s great lakes have been flooding, displacing hundreds of thousands of people as rising water levels leave towns and villages almost completely submerged. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Flooding is also affecting … Continue reading
How starfish embryos become living crystals
Physicists have been amazed by the complex system created by simple starfish embryos in a dish of water. For the first time, a multicellular organism has been observed naturally creating a crystalline structure – and one with unexpected properties. This … Continue reading
When a hundred wasn’t 100: BIG NUMBER WORDS (Milliards, myriads, lakhs, crores & more)
The history of the word hundred is guaranteed to surprise you. As are the stories behind so many English words for big numbers. Where does the word thousand come from? How much is a milliard? How many in a myriad? … Continue reading
An astrophysicist explains the first JWST science images
The first science images from JWST are absolutely spectacular, but what are we seeing in them and what can learn from them? I’ve been at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Warwick all week with 500 of my … Continue reading
How imaginary numbers describe the fundamental shape of nature | Aeon Essays
Illustration by Richard Wilkinson These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature Many science students may imagine a ball rolling down a hill or a car skidding because … Continue reading
Should we save capitalism? | Slavoj Žižek, Paul Krugman, Yanis Varoufakis, Shoshana Zuboff, and more
Leading economists and philosophers discuss in depth the downfall of capitalism and its implications for our social reality. Featuring: Slavoj Žižek, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Shoshana Zuboff, @Yanis Varoufakis, @Mariana Mazzucato , Deirdre McCloskey and Guy Standing. 00:00 | Introduction … Continue reading
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