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Amazon River Dolphins: Pink Freshwater Dolphins That Eat Piranhas
The scariest fish in the world are afraid of the cutest apex predator of the Amazon. | Go to https://bit.ly/3Ogssd8 and use code ANIMALOGIC to get 15% off ClickUp’s massive Unlimited Plan for a year! Start reclaiming your time for … Continue reading
Distant Volcanoes Collapsed Dozens of Empires
[…] Volcanoes, climate change, and Chinese history may seem like three phrases spit out of a random word generator, but the three things are more inherently linked than one may assume. Hosted by: Hank Green […]
8 Intelligences: Are You a Jack of All Trades or a Master of One? | Howard Gardner | Big Think
8 Intelligences: Are You a Jack of All Trades or a Master of One? Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think+ for exclusive videos: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- What does it mean when someone calls you smart or … Continue reading
Why Does Caffeine Exist?
[…] Today, billions of people around the world start their day with caffeine. But how and why did the ability to produce this molecule independently evolve in multiple, distantly-related lineages of flowering plants, again and again? […]
BBC Radio 4 – BBC Inside Science, Heatwave: the consequences
What are the consequences of the recent UK heatwave for us, plants and our energy supply. The severity of last week’s heatwave is changing the narrative. Gaia Vince talks to Simon Evans, deputy editor of the climate publication Carbon Brief, … Continue reading
New Phase of Matter Opens Portal to Extra Time Dimension | Scientific American
By Zeeya Merali on July 26, 2022 Credit: sakkmesterke/ Getty Images Physicists have devised a mind-bending error-correction technique that could dramatically boost the performance of quantum computers When the ancient Incas wanted to archive tax and census records, they used … Continue reading
How Kenya is flooding in a drought | It’s Complicated
For more than 10 years, Kenya’s great lakes have been flooding, displacing hundreds of thousands of people as rising water levels leave towns and villages almost completely submerged. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Flooding is also affecting … Continue reading
How starfish embryos become living crystals
Physicists have been amazed by the complex system created by simple starfish embryos in a dish of water. For the first time, a multicellular organism has been observed naturally creating a crystalline structure – and one with unexpected properties. This … Continue reading
When a hundred wasn’t 100: BIG NUMBER WORDS (Milliards, myriads, lakhs, crores & more)
The history of the word hundred is guaranteed to surprise you. As are the stories behind so many English words for big numbers. Where does the word thousand come from? How much is a milliard? How many in a myriad? … Continue reading
Solar system science from the James Webb Space Telescope – with Naomi Rowe-Gurney
What is the JWST, and what big science questions can it answer? Join NASA scientist Naomi as she discusses the new JWST images, along with her research into the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, and the many other areas that … Continue reading
A climate solution you might not think of.
Climate solutions are desperately needed right now. You might not immediately think of going to the mining industry to find one of them though. But research shows shows that the unwanted by-product of the mining industry, rock dust, could be … Continue reading
