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A short animated film which questions the ideal worlds of a perfectionistic culture. Exploring research through storytelling, the film is based in a fantasy jungle that acts as a portal for idealised worlds to become external. Funded by Barbican Film … Continue reading

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Smartest Fish on Earth, Mormyridae, Seem To Talk Just Like Us

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new discoveries in regards to a strange African fish that communicates using very complex electrical signals Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/… Brain study and video used: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/… … Continue reading

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Oldest Known Plague Victim Was Just Discovered. It Was 4,000 Years Before Black Death

Patial skull of man who died of the plague, 5,000 years ago. (Dominik Göldner/BGAEU, Berlin) Five thousand years ago, a rodent bit a Stone Age hunter-gatherer. The creature carried a strain of pernicious bacteria called Yersinia pestis – the pathogen … Continue reading

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Sweltering Photos Capture the Charred and Molten Rock Rippling Down from an Icelandic Volcano

Whether shooting in the harsh snowy regions of Greenland or on the basalt-lined waters of Iceland’s Stuðlagil canyon, Jan Erik Waider highlights the textures and fleeting shapes of the earth’s landscapes. His photographs often isolate monumental subject matter like glaciers … Continue reading

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The Internet Does NOT Know What BERGAMOT Is (The Fascinating Reason Why) – Weird Fruit Explorer

Ep 565. The Internet Does NOT Know What BERGAMOT Is – The Fascinating Reason Why Binomial Name: Citrus Bergamia Location: NYC (grown in California) […]

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Bean to Bar – Meet London’s Single Origin Chocolate Pioneer

Making chocolate is a labor of love for London-based Phil Landers, founder of Land Chocolate. Having learnt the basics in Central America, Phil honed his craft with well-known chocolatiers and then set up on his own in 2016 in an … Continue reading

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Women’s only sacred forest under threat – BBC News

In Papua, Indonesia, there is a mangrove forest that only women are allowed to enter. It’s a special place where generations of women have gathered clams and shared stories. But now, this sacred forest is under threat from pollution and … Continue reading

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2021 Milky Way Photographer of the Year – Capture the Atlas

The 2021 Milky Way photographer of the year. Discover the best Milky Way images taken around the world in 2021! “GRANTECAN” – ANTONIO SOLANO La Palma, Canary Islands – Spain On the last night of my trip to La Palma, … Continue reading

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The Shocking Way Your Body Makes Electricity

Here’s a thought: What IS a thought? I know it involves my brain, and my brain is made of neurons. And my brain’s neurons are listening to other neurons all over my body. But how do those neurons actually work? … Continue reading

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A Gleaming Series of USPS Stamps Features a Decade of the Sun’s Phenomena | Colossal

JUNE 25, 2021 GRACE EBERT NASA and the USPS have teamed up to release a glimmering series of stamps that celebrates some of the sun’s most alluring phenomena. Printed with a foil treatment, the ten designs are derived from a … Continue reading

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