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Plants Are Way Cooler Than We Give Them Credit For
Plants! If oxygen and good smells aren’t enough for you, here’s a collection of episodes that might win you over. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
Psychology Hacks to Help Your New Year’s Resolutions | Compilation
It’s time to ring in the new year, so lots of people are ready to make their new year’s resolutions. With the help of psychology, you too can be on your way to fulfilling your goals this year! Hosted by: … Continue reading
A brief history of alcohol – Rod Phillips
Trace the 7,000 year old history of alcohol, from its first known origins in China to cultures all over the world fermenting their own drinks. — Nobody knows exactly when humans began to create fermented beverages. The earliest known evidence … Continue reading
7 Wacky Ways Birds Use Feathers
Feathers are good for flying, but they help birds do a lot more than just soar through the skies.[…]
3 Surprising Things That Act Like Fluids
Sometimes being in a traffic jam can feel like being stuck in a clogged pipe. And it turns out, maybe that feeling isn’t too far off. Today we look at 3 things that are remarkably unlike fluids, yet still behave … Continue reading
Tortoises Have Amazing Long-Term Memory and Greatly Underestimated Intelligence
Described as “living rocks,” giant land tortoises are lumbering beasts with a reputation for being sluggish in both speed and brainpower. But new research carried out by scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) suggests we have greatly … Continue reading
Eat The Weeds: Episode 148: Brazilian Pepper
EatTheWeeds Brazilian Pepper is a controversial spice tree and invasive species with toxic relatives. Should you use it? Make up your own mind. Read about a thousand edible wild plants on: http://www.eattheweeds.com. Green Deane is the most watched forager in … Continue reading
Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom
It’s time to embrace the shamanistic side of Christmas. New York Times Op-Doc article here: nyti.ms/2DvuaEa
Shape-Shifting Figure by Frank Force Wins Best Illusion of 2019
Is it rotating vertically or horizontally? Clockwise or counterclockwise? An optical illusion created by game developer and artist Frank Force features a moving shape that seemingly shifts each way. […] Source: Shape-Shifting Figure by Frank Force Wins Best Illusion of … Continue reading
Second Strategy to Cooking Broccoli
Adding myrosinase enzymes in the form of even a pinch of mustard powder to cooked cruciferous (cabbage-family) vegetables like kale, collards, or Brussels sprouts can offer anti-cancer sulforaphane levels comparable to raw, removing the necessity to pre-chop for maximum health … Continue reading
Schrödinger’s cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, … Continue reading
Munch’s Scream
What evolution and nonverbal communication studies tell us about an iconic image Edvard Munch’s extraordinary 1893 painting The Scream consistently places near the top of various lists of the most recognized and impactful works of art. It’s an iconic image, imitated … Continue reading
