-
Recent Posts
- This is a baby flamingo. Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae
- In Southeast Asia, thousands of ducks are deployed into rice fields to act as natural pest control and weeders
- This Fly’s Face Does WHAT? | Deep Look
- The Most Hated Woman in Science Was Right About the Dinosaurs?
- Manchester Moon last night ❤️
- Paccheri pasta extrusion process
- Humans Encountered… Terror Birds?
- My hands could never…😭🥀
Archives
Categories
Tag Archives: comparison
Technologies We Take for Granted That May Come to an End
And why it will matter. […]
The Best Places To Live To Survive Climate Change
[…] We hear a lot about ways to mitigate climate change, but as the effects start to pile up, we should probably talk about ways to prepare for the worst. So let’s look at the best places around the world … Continue reading
The fundamentals of space-time: Part 1 – Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-fundame… Space is where things happen. Time is when things happen. And sometimes, in order to really look at the universe, you need to take those two concepts and mash them together. In this first lesson of … Continue reading
An interstellar voyage explores the ‘paradox’ of twins separated by light years | Aeon Videos
Trek light years into deep space to explore time dilation and the ‘twin paradox’ at the centre of special relativity. Albert Einstein’s introduction of special relativity at the dawn of the 20th century left physicists with any number of peculiar … Continue reading
You’ll prefer 120dB
[…] We often use decibels, a measure of sound pressure, to describe how loud something is – but loudness is caused by how we perceive sounds, and the two often don’t line up. LEARN MORE ************ To learn more about … Continue reading
Like pop music, humpback whale songs spread, mutate, and fall out of fashion | Aeon Videos
Humpback whale songs spread through the oceans like pop music, raising deeper questions about whale cultural evolution Since the discovery of humpback whale songs in the 1960s, the exact reason why male humpbacks sing has puzzled scientists. Like other marine … Continue reading
Peter Singer charts the path from Hegelian philosophy to Marxist revolution | Aeon Videos
How Hegel’s ‘notoriously obscure’ philosophy of history revolutionised the world via Marx, as explained by Peter Singer Known for his dense and abstract writings, G W F Hegel (1770-1831) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century. … Continue reading
