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The Art and Science of Remembering – Elemental
Cramming for the exam, repeating someone’s name: Some experts say they’re not that effective at solidifying a memory. Memories don’t just happen — they’re made. In the brain, the process involves converting working memory — things we’ve just learned — into long-term memories. Scientists have known … Continue reading
NASA’s Photo Shows Mars’ Grand Canyon in Spectacular Detail
Measuring the length of the entire United States, Mars’ Valles Marineris—Mariner Valley—is an enormous canyon that makes our Grand Canyon appear minuscule. Stretching across a good expanse of the Red Planet, Valles Marineris is captured in spectacular detail thanks to … Continue reading
Kant & Categorical Imperatives: Crash Course Philosophy #35
CrashCourse Published on 15 Nov 2016 Our next stop on our tour of ethics is Kant’s ethics. Today Hank explains hypothetical and categorical imperatives, the universalizability principle, autonomy, and what it means to treat people as ends-in-themselves, rather than as … Continue reading
Entanglement Theory may Reveal a Reality we can’t Handle
What is entanglement theory? It is a Mystery, and here is a potential solution. But its implications are so paradigm shattering that most scientists refuse to believe it. Maybe we can’t handle the truth? Imagine you found a pair of … Continue reading
The 1751 Machine that Made Everything
Machine Thinking Published on 15 Mar 2018 If you had to pick one machine that triggered the biggest explosion of wealth in our history, which would you pick?
Translating proteins into music, and back – ScienceBlog.com
Want to create a brand new type of protein that might have useful properties? No problem. Just hum a few bars. In a surprising marriage of science and art, researchers at MIT have developed a system for converting the molecular … Continue reading
Portals Composed of Vivid Multi-Layered Colors Visually Represent Complex Scientific Concepts by Jen Stark
Los Angeles-based artist Jen Stark (previously) uses materials such as paper, wood, and metal to create optically-charged sculptures based on complex scientific and mathematic concepts. Layered colors with both smooth and warped edges create tunnels into the unknown, forming visual … Continue reading
Life ≠ alive – Aeon
On a sofa in the corner of the room, a cat is purring. It seems obvious that the cat is an example of life, whereas the sofa itself is not. But should we trust our intuition? Consider this: Isaac Newton … Continue reading
Farm-like indoor microbiota may protect children from asthma also in urban homes – ScienceBlog.com
A child’s risk of developing asthma is the smaller the more the microbiota of the child’s home resembles that of a farm house. This was shown by a study conducted by the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) that … Continue reading
Scientists Have Found Evidence a Strange Group of Quantum Particles Are Basically Immortal
This is scientific sorcery. Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm don’t always follow the rules. Now, scientists have found that quasiparticles in quantum systems could be … Continue reading
