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Musician Plays a Homemade Bass Guitar With Glass Bottle & Stick | My Modern Met

By Emma Taggart on March 15, 2021 This man proves you don’t need fancy, expensive equipment to make some sick beats. Remember crafting cereal box guitars as a kid? The cardboard instruments are fun to make, but they don’t exactly … Continue reading

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You can grow new brain cells. Here’s how

Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform neurogenesis—improving mood, increasing memory formation and preventing the decline associated … Continue reading

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How The Next Batteries Will Change the World

Silicon Valley is about to commercialize revolutionary technology that will enable huge breakthroughs in the battle against global warming.

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Video: Dried-up Aral Sea springs back to life

Straddling the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest saline lake in the world, an inland sea of 66,000 square kilometres. But in 1950, the Soviets diverted the two rivers that fed it in order … Continue reading

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La valse d’Amelie – Vibraphone Test Melody – Marble Machine X 105

At last, the Diva singer of the MMX has finally hummed its first test melody and, It could be worse! Lots of tweaks needed as always in this project. Step by step 🙂 Check out the triplet grid video here: … Continue reading

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Book Club, June 2017)

This is the wrap-up video for the first month of the book club. This month we read, Robert Pirsig’s classic philosophical road trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This month I’m joined by Kalid Azad of BetterExplained.com to … Continue reading

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COVID-19 Variant Recombination: Threat or Achilles Heel?

Scientists may have found a recombinant variant of COVID-19 in the wild, and its mixed DNA could be essential to the coronavirus life cycle.

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NPR Pirsing Interview 1991

This interview with Robert Prisig was done just after the publication of Lila, Robert’s 2nd book.

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7 Ways To Pull Carbon From The Atmosphere | Random Thursday

If we are ever going to return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels, we have to take out some of the carbon we’ve already put into the sky. Still, carbon capture is a controversial topic and one that many people know … Continue reading

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Epecuén | A Disastrous Story Of Economic Progress vs Nature

Photographer Adrián Markis is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography.  From the project ‘Epecuén’. Epecuén Lake Village is located 550 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires. Epecuén’s famous lake belongs to the endorheic basin of the chained … Continue reading

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