Tag Archives: Life

Nature has learnt how to eat our plastic!

Nature always finds a way..so they say! But it looks like it may actually be true in the case of our global plastic waste dilemma. Genetic mutations have been discovered in specific natural bacteria that enable them to break the … Continue reading

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Street Art Dream

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Art by Senor Ok in Medellin

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TRANSFORMING

“TRANSFORMING” is 3D Printed Nail stopmotion animation. Created by Planner/Director Mizuki Kawano and Producer Yuna Takayama from Taiyokikaku Co., Ltd. The company’s computer graphics artists produced the animation data based on the designs created by the Manicurist, Hatsuki Furutani. Then … Continue reading

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How to recognise birds from their song

The definitive guide to bird song. Watch this short video to learn the different sounds made by different birds. As a wildlife artist I spend most of my waking hours listening and watching birds in the wild and I can … Continue reading

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Stunning Winners of the 2020 Mobile Photography Awards | My Modern Met

“On Inle Lake” by Dan Liu on Apple iPhone11 ProMax. Winner of the Silhouettes category. Dan Liu is also the 2020 Grand Prize Winner and the MPA Photographer of the Year 2020. (Photo: Dan Liu/Mobile Photography Awards)   We look … Continue reading

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We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life

We’ve had the idea that life began in the oceans since the 1920s, when it was first put forward. This was cemented in our minds in the 1950s by the classic Miller-Urey experiment from which scientists hypothesized that the ocean-atmospheric … Continue reading

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The Bayesian Trap

I didn’t say it explicitly in the video, but in my view the Bayesian trap is interpreting events that happen repeatedly as events that happen inevitably. They may be inevitable OR they may simply be the outcome of a series … Continue reading

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Special Report: How a coronavirus variant tore through an English island and onto the world stage | Reuters

By Andrew MacAskill, Andrew R.C. Marshall ISLE OF SHEPPEY, England (Reuters) – Warm weather brings tourists to the Isle of Sheppey, a flat, marshy island near the mouth of the River Thames. Each summer, they fill Sheppey’s many caravan parks … Continue reading

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Why China’s Crazy Housing Bubble REFUSES TO BURST!

This is getting ridiculous! Housing prices in China have now got to the insane price that an entire year’s salary can only buy you 10 square feet, so on average it takes 900 years of salary to pay for a … Continue reading

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