-
Recent Posts
- How Big Other Planets Really Are
- Biomedical Scientist Fact Checks Pseudoscience Slop
- Nicolas Robert (@robertsnickc.bsky.social) | by Mentalgassi in #Germany
- Ilê Aiyê
- The Surrealism of Magritte
- Manchester in Layers — canals, railway arches and the modern skyline
- “Coffee Place” by Lara Paulussen
- Red Rocking Bird (@redrockingbird) | redrockingbird 🐍 Who knew a cardboard box could become this?
Archives
Categories
Tag Archives: science
NPR Invisibilia – The Power of Expectations
ur own lives. ——- CREDITS Client: NPR | Invisibilia Directed, illustrated and animated by Francesca Cattaneo Additional animator: Nicholas Bertini A special thanks to Andrew Embury who worked on the bottle animation (02:00-02:05) and Ramon Paris for the precious support. … Continue reading
Why Genetic Engineering Can’t Do Everything (Yet)
[…] We’ve made some great strides in understanding the human genome, but before we can tackle genetic engineering, we have some “chicken and egg” problems to figure out. Hosted by: Hank Green […]
Groundbreaking earthquake discovery: Risk models overlook an important element | News, University of Copenhagen
Haitian earthquake. Photo: Getty GEOLOGY Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. This new knowledge should be incorporated in computer models … Continue reading
Look to the octopus to understand how aliens might think
Octopuses are incredibly smart, yet the majority of their neurons exist in their arms and suckers, and not in their brain, making them as close to alien intelligence as we can find on Earth. Imagine: What if our hands and … Continue reading
Marta Halina: Charting Animal Cognition
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal cognition could help us get past our biases when assessing the minds of nonhuman beings. More on this video: aeon.co/videos/how-a-periodic-table-of-animal-intelligence-could-help-to-root-out-human-bias Watch more on Aeon: aeon.co/video Subscribe: vimeo.com/aeonvideo Interviewer: Sally Davies Producer: Kellen Quinn Cinematographer: … Continue reading
Is the strength of gravity really CONSTANT? | Solving the crisis in cosmology
Is the gravitational constant, G, really a constant? Or does it change with time, or with space, or with scale in the Universe?! And if it did, could this help solve the crisis in cosmology?! Or even be an explanation … Continue reading
Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets | The Smithsonian Magazine
Joshua Levine, Photographs by Christian Als In 1950, Tollund Man’s discoverers “found a face so fresh they could only suppose they had stumbled on a recent murder.” Christian Als High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates … Continue reading
Nature writing should strive for clarity not sentimentality | Aeon Essays
‘For a goshawk, it sometimes seems as if life is simply nature’s way of keeping meat fresh,’ observes photographer and filmmaker James Aldred in Goshawk Summer (2021). Photo by Mike Powles/Getty Too many nature writers descend into poetic self-absorption instead … Continue reading
Orange Egg Yolks: Why Are Some Egg Yolks So Orange? | Food Unfolded
By Annabel Slater Does egg yolk colour matter? Why are yolks from hens in different countries different colours? Find out with FoodUnfolded. When I was growing up, we used to keep free-range chickens. We’d buy them from battery farms – … Continue reading
A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | TED
Over the course of hundreds of scuba dives, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson fell in love — with a fish. In this ode to parrotfish, she shares five reasons why these creatures are simply amazing (from their ability to poop … Continue reading
