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A Butterfly Sipping Moisture from Puddles, Sculpted Entirely in Wood by Toru Fukuda | Spoon & Tamago

MAY 30, 2021 / JOHNNY Butterflies can sometimes be found sipping moisture from puddles or wet soil after a rain. The process, seen here in the image above, is known as “puddling.” Except this image is not a real-life butterfly, … Continue reading

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Meet Our Nitrogen-Breathing Bacterial Relative

[…] Oxygen is pretty great stuff, but this recently discovered organism couldn’t care less about oxygen. It breathes nitrogen and may offer a window into how the types of cells in OUR bodies may have evolved billions of years ago. … Continue reading

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Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park by Annie Ovenden

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Overloaded: How Your Brain Chemicals Influence Your Life – with Ginny Smith

Scientists are uncovering the unexpected connections between crucial neurotransmitters and our thoughts, memories and emotions. Get Ginny’s book: https://geni.us/VDR94gV Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/Ih2SsEfYE1Q Join Ginny Smith as she explores her latest book ‘Overloaded’ and the role that neurotransmitters play in … Continue reading

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Blend up a hydra, and its cells will coalesce back into a full creature. How? | Aeon

A relative of jellyfish, the rice-sized freshwater creatures known as hydra are, at first glance, rather basic – all tentacles and mouth, with lives dedicated to nabbing passing prey. But, as scientists have gradually been discovering over centuries, these simple … Continue reading

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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about coffee | Chandler Graf | TEDxACU

As a biochemistry major and barista at Beltway Coffee in Abilene, Chandler Graf has a deep passion and appreciation for the integration of science in the art of brewing coffee. Chandler’s TEDxACU talk, filmed at Beltway Coffee and delivered via … Continue reading

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Sebastião Salgado: Genesis | Famous landscape photographers

Source: Sebastião Salgado: Genesis | Famous landscape photographers, Sebastiao salgado, Landscape photography

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Why British People Can’t Donate Blood in America

[…] Credits: Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Ashleen Knutsen 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://www.newscientist.com/article/… … Continue reading

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The robot-proof job men aren’t taking

It’s easy to imagine that the jobs of the future, if they even exist, will all revolve around technology. But it turns out, the jobs that are least likely to succumb to automation are those that involve building human relationships. … Continue reading

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Close-Up Portraits of Bees Capture Each of Their Unique Faces

By Jessica Stewart on May 25, 2021 Being stuck in quarantine encouraged this photographer to point his lens at his own garden, and he wound up with incredible bee portraits. Documentary camera and drone operator Josh Forwood specializes in capturing … Continue reading

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