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Thirteen year old girl keeps an injured bee as a pet after it followed her home | Cornwall Live
By Amelia Shaw Kate Pounds 09:28, 21 AUG 2021 A teen has a special bond with a bumblebee she saved two weeks ago who now wont leave her, even when she goes to the shops, and it went on a … Continue reading
Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System | Emergence Magazine
by Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer’s groundbreaking work has long emphasized the sentience and wisdom of plants. In this multimedia essay, she takes us on the nine-thousand-year journey of maize, reflecting on what has been severed in our once … Continue reading
The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future | Kate Darling
Robot ethicist Kate Darling offers a nuanced and smart take on our relationships to robots and the increasing presence they will have in our lives. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking … Continue reading
Why Origami May Be The Secret to Finding Exomoons
[…] New research from the Cool Worlds Lab! Join us to learn about a new technique we’ve developed to search for exomoons – “Transit Origami”. Written and presented by Prof David Kipping of Columbia University […]
Why Humans Are Supposed to Sleep in Two 4-Hour Phases
[…] Video written by Adam Chase […]
The Hidden Pattern Behind Earth’s Biggest Disasters
[…] Scientists from New York University and the Carnegie Institution of Science analyzed 89 major geological events from the past 260 million years—everything from mass extinctions to volcanic activity, sea-level fluctuations to continental plate shifts. And far from being totally … Continue reading
Why Does Rubbing Tired Eyes Feel Good?
It can be a wonderful feeling to give your tired eyes a good rub. And rubbing your eyes can help keep them moist, but it turns out it also can affect your heart rate. Hosted by: Michael Aranda
Your Brain Stays Half Awake When You Sleep in a New Place
Turns out that your brain is on “night watch.” Have you ever woken up after sleeping in a new place and felt as if you hardly slept at all? This phenomenon is called the First-Night Effect (FNE), referring to the … Continue reading
Water Turned Into a Golden Metallic Substance Using New Experiment
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new experiment that turned water into a golden metal Press release: https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbi… Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… Philip E. Mason’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdz18… […]
Angle of Repose – Gallery Installation
Angle of Repose is about the hidden ice in rock glaciers and their importance as slow-release water sources for down-valley ecosystems. A rock glacier looks to me as a human like a pile of sand would look to an ant. … Continue reading