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Iceland Tests Out a 4-Day Work Week and Meets Huge Success
Photo: Kristin Wilson “This study shows that the world’s largest ever trial of a shorter working week in the public sector was by all measures an overwhelming success.” In an increasingly work-focused society, many people are starting to … Continue reading
The Plants That Live on Artificial Light (and Why That’s Bad)
Plants are finding their ways into caves, and it’s all our fault. Hosted by: Michael Aranda […]
Hubble is fixed! And is the crisis in cosmology over?! | Night Sky News July ’21
From how to spot the Perseids meteor shower, to fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, to billionaire space flights, free-floating planets, a new type of Supernova, and a solution to the crisis in cosmology. All in this month’s Night Sky News! … Continue reading
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – the forgotten immunisation pioneer | The Conversation
Tom Solomon Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool Wortley Montagu popularised the Turkish practice of ‘variolation’, kickstarting the … Continue reading
Siberia: The Melting Permafrost | ARTE Documentary
Russian geophysicist Sergei Zimov together with his son Nikita want to prevent the permafrost from thawing due to climate change. The ice in Siberia contains microbes that once thawed could tilt the world climate beyond our control. ARTE Documentary is … Continue reading
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Why Getting Dizzy Breaks Your Brain (Temporarily)
We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question “why do we get dizzy?” and in the process we learned about some very strange and … Continue reading
How Do You Trace a Meteorite Back To Its Home?
[…] It’s virtually impossible to tell where a meteorite comes from, but in 2018, scientists were able to pull a feat of forensic astronomy and do just that. Host: Reid Reimers […]
The Day Dinosaurs Died – 2nd Asteroid Impact Provides More Clues
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the most famous extinction event and new discoveries about the impacts that caused the demise of dinosaurs Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte… […]
Swimming Tentacled Droplets | Kottke
Well, this is really quite odd. A group of scientists discovered that if they cool ordinary oily droplets floating in water down to around 2-8°C, they change shape, grow tentacles, and propel themselves around […] More: Swimming Tentacled Droplets
Great News! NASA Managed to Fix The Hubble Telescope…For Now
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the recent news from the Hubble telescope. Servicing mission 3B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckjh5… […]
