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The Evolution and Meanings of Human Skin Color | Nina Jablonski
Variation in human skin color has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. As the most visible aspect of human variation, skin color has been used in the past as a basis for classifying people into “races.” In this lecture, Leakey … Continue reading
The Platypus is Missing This Major Organ
You might think you know why the platypus is a bizarre beast. Maybe you know that it lays eggs, that the males have venomous spurs on their ankles, and that it can sense electricity with its bill. But do you … Continue reading
How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
[…] Today, chilis are the most widely cultivated spice crop in the world – grown everywhere from their native home in the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia. But how and why did chilis evolve this weird, fiery trick in … Continue reading
‘That just died’: Paleoanthropologist debunks myth about humans
Paleoanthropologist Dr. Lee Berger and his team of “underground astronauts” have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. … Continue reading
Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on Earth! Hosted by: Hank Green […]
Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?
When the theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind encountered a head-scratching paradox about black holes, he turned to an unexpected place: computer science. In nature, most self-contained systems eventually reach thermodynamic equilibrium … but not black holes. The interior volume of a … Continue reading
The Sun Is Green
[…] The Sun is green, actually. We’ll go into why the blackbody effect means the Sun emits more green visible light than any other color, and why evolution and color perception mean it’s ok to see it as yellow, anyway. … Continue reading
Why are the monkeys descending from the trees? | EL PAÍS
MIGUEL ÁNGEL CRIADO OCT 25, 2022 – 12:42 GMT+ 40 years ago muriquis spent just 0.05% of their time on the ground, a percentage that has increased twentyfold in a quarter of a century. MARLON LIMA / PROJETO MURIQUI DE … Continue reading
Shimmering Glass Plates Make You Feel Like You’re Eating Off Water Droplets | Spoon & Tamago
JUNE 1, 2023 / JOHNNY It’s said that shutter speeds of around 1/1000th of a second are necessary to really capture the detail of moving water in photography. So you can imagine the technical challenge of accurately capturing water as … Continue reading
