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Middle Ages to middle aisle – new store offers shoppers glimpse of Dublin’s past
Shoppers at a new Lidl store in Dublin will get a unique insight into the city’s medieval past. The remains of an 11th century house are clearly visible beneath a glass section of the floor of the store on Aungier … Continue reading
Icy Bodies by Shawn Lani, a dry ice exhibit that mixes science with art | The Kid Should See This
Dry ice, solid chunks of carbon dioxide, plop one by one into a shallow layer of water. As they disintegrate, they jet across the liquid’s surface with vaporous swirls and trails. This is Icy Bodies by artist and exhibit designer … Continue reading
BBC World Service – CrowdScience, Am I related to a virus?
Although they’re not technically ‘alive’ might viruses hold a place in our family tree? All living things are related to each other, from elephants to algae, e-coli to humans like us. Within our cells we hold genetic information in the … Continue reading
OSIRIS-REx Touches Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Oct. 20, 2020, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to … Continue reading
Charming Local Covid-19 Social Distancing Signs | Kottke
Public health safety measures don’t have to be bureaucratic, dour, and oppressive. They can even be fun. This is a sign from my local hardware store here in Vermont reminding shoppers to social distance: Journalist Rebecca Boyle recently asked her … Continue reading
The 2 Billion Year Old Earth-Based Nuclear Reactor
Sources: Wiles, Donald, The Chemistry of Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal, Polytechnic International Press, Montreal, 2002 Meshik, Alex, The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor, Scientific American, November 2005, https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar… Mervine, Evelyn, Nature’s Nuclear Reactors: the 2-Billion-Year-Old Natural Fission Reactors in … Continue reading
Viral ‘molecular scissor’ is next COVID-19 drug target – ScienceBlog.com
American and Polish scientists, reporting Oct. 16 in the journal Science Advances, laid out a novel rationale for COVID-19 drug design – blocking a molecular “scissor” that the virus uses for virus production and to disable human proteins crucial to the … Continue reading
How Bilingual Brains Perceive Time Differently
A new study has found that what language you speak might alter your perception of time.
“Your Civilisation Is Killing Life on Earth”
Nemonte Nenquimo, leader of the Waorani people in Ecuador: This is my message to the western world — your civilisation is killing life on Earth. My name is Nemonte Nenquimo. I am a Waorani woman, a mother, and a leader of … Continue reading
Centralia: The Real-Life Silent Hill | Answers With Joe
The first 1000 people to sign up at https://skl.sh/joescott10201will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium! Centralia is a town at the heart of coal country that now sits abandoned and forgotten. The story behind what happened there is far … Continue reading
Fundamental Physics: Scientists Discover the Fastest Possible Speed of Sound
A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the fastest possible speed of sound. The result — about 36 km per second — is … Continue reading
