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Delisted Wolves | The Poetry of Science 

Delisted Wolves July 9, 2021 by Sam Illingworth Flecks of silver trickle through hostile grounds. Consigned to a footnote by the fervour of unbridled prey too quick to hunt. Defamed. Deprived. Defiled. Invisible bodies stack up in sustainable harvests, winter’s … Continue reading

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The Insane Biology of: The Platypus

[…] Credits: Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Angela Wipperman Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realenginee…) Imagery courtesy of Getty Images References: [1] https://ielc.libguides.com/sdzg/facts… … Continue reading

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Embroidered Landscapes Capture the Stillness of Pastoral Life through Dense Knots and Stitches | Colossal

JULY 9, 2021 GRACE EBERT French knots, chain stitches, and straight lines become peaceful countrysides and abandoned shacks overrun by moss and vines in Katrin Vates’s embroideries. Using bleached canvas as a base, Vates works with thread in natural color … Continue reading

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A Scrupulous Blue Tit Perfects Her Nest and Lays Her First Egg in a 46-Day Timelapse Recorded Inside the Roost | Colossal

It turns out that blue tits are just like us: finicky about their living quarters. Captured with a camera mounted in a box near the town of Loughborough in the U.K., a highlight reel follows one of the birds as … Continue reading

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Sarah Sze Implants a Fragmented Installation of Individual Mirrors in a Lush Hudson Valley Landscape | Colossal

Artist Sarah Sze (previously) is known for precisely arranging unique images like photos, paintings, projections into massive sculptural constellations that collapse time and space, and one of her newest installations works in a similar manner, drawing on the tensions between … Continue reading

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What would happen if we removed the Milky Way’s black hole?

Weirdly, the galaxy would be completely fine, and here’s why! Also, head to https://kiwico.com/drbecky50 for 50% off your first month of any Kiwi Co subscription crate. 00:00 – Introduction 00:50 – What you’d expect 02:41 – Black hole mass fraction … Continue reading

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Photographer Captures Rare Image of a Crow Taking an Ant Bath | My Modern Met

  By Jessica Stewart on July 8, 2021“It is immensely gratifying to be able to share this shot of a little-seen and even less understood behavior with so many others.” Photographer Tony Austin has been enthralled with photography since he … Continue reading

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What’s in the 4% of our DNA that makes us different from chimps?

On the genetic level, we’re not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in DNA can have huge effects. Hosted by: Hank Green […]

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5 Things That Make You a Mosquito Magnet

Every summer it seems like there’s that one person who always gets a lot of mosquito bites. But what makes people mosquito magnets? […]

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Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s

By Carol Rasmussen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory High-tide flooding in Honolulu. Credit: Hawaii Sea Grant King Tides Project In Brief: In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea … Continue reading

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