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BBC Radio 4 – Just One Thing – with Michael Mosley, Play an Instrument

Why learning a musical instrument can improve your memory and your immune system. Humans have been making music for thousands of years, but for Michael Mosley and our volunteer Matthew, the musical journey is only just beginning. Playing a musical … Continue reading

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The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis

[…] How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place? When and where did we first domesticate it? And why oh why does it get us high? […]

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The World’s Oldest Story is Written in the Stars

Isolated cultures worldwide have the same story about the Pleiades. Why? Like, subscribe, comment. Cheers! 00:00 Missing sister 05:41 Reality 08:18 Halley’s other comet 12:38 Changing skies 15:14 Common origin 19:14 Nuclear semiotics ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Sources: Main paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09170.pdf Myths: https://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/en/outrea… … Continue reading

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Jeffery Laudenslager (@jefferylaudenslager1) • Instagram reel

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Has JWST SOLVED the crisis in cosmology?!

Last weekend the lead researcher of a group using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to calculate the current rate of expansion of the Universe (aka the Hubble constant, H0) presented their results for the first time at … Continue reading

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During a solar eclipse…

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Solar eclipse: 4 minutes of totality was awe-inspiring

Still reeling from seeing my first solar eclipse in all its awe-inspiring totality. A moment I will never forget. Happy eclipse day to my fellow North Americans who looked up yesterday! #solareclipse #eclipse #totality

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We are at the verge of a quantum revolution | Avshalom Elitzur

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Population Decline and the Future of Humanity | Empty Planet | A Review

Is the global population about to explode beyond the carrying capacity of the Earth? Or are we facing a population decline so precipitous that we won’t be able to transition securely? I examine these questions and more in this book … Continue reading

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The very fabric of space-time

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