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What Causes the Worst Cyclones (It’s Not Just Heat)

[…] mages Courtesy of Getty Images Credits: Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Ashleen Knutsen Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus ( … Continue reading

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Why So Many Ladybugs Don’t Look Like Ladybugs

Ladybugs are red with black spots, right? Well, not always. There’s a lot of genetic and evolutionary reasons that they can be different colors with wacky patterns. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) […]

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How languages steal words from each other

This is the only pirate reference you’re getting from me. • Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen’s podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/6847274… • More Language Files: • Tom’s Language Files Gretchen’s book BECAUSE INTERNET, all … Continue reading

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Is this the best sci-fi movie?

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This is how, more than 1,000 years ago, Chinese developed a technique to make paper from bamboo

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Huge plasma arc wins | BBC News

  Winning images of the amazing parts of our Universe go on display in London. Andromeda, Unexpected – Winner in the Galaxies category and Overall Winner A photo of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy has won … Continue reading

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You’re a Dream of the Universe (According to Science)

[…] Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources… Absolutely everything you think about yourself and the universe could be an illusion. As far as you know, you are real and exist in a universe that was born 14 billion years ago and … Continue reading

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Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius

Immanuel Kant, who coined the term genius in the 1700s, defined it as the rare capacity to independently understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. Since then, the spectrum of abilities that we call genius … Continue reading

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BBC Radio 4 – The Gift, Room 5 – Series 2, Room 5, S2 – 8. Hannah

On being one in a million. Hannah’s aged five, playing with the toys in a hospital waiting room. She’s been here before, been in and out of hospital since she was a baby. But today, she’s about to discover what’s … Continue reading

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Inside The UKs Breakthrough Fusion Reactor – First Light Fusion

First Light Fusion are taking an compelling approach to fusion, elimating the physics complexity, and engineering for scalable clean energy. I had the opportunity to see inside First Light’s breakthrough fusion reactor and wanted to bring to along for the … Continue reading

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