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Category Archives: Science
Reuniting with a cousin
I’d seen this a while back, but it was fun to see again. Damian Aspinall raised Kwibi the lowland gorilla up until the age of 5, when Kwibi was let go in Gabon. Aspinall hadn’t seen Kwibi since that time, … Continue reading
Renowned Conservation Photographer Garth Lenz: The True Cost of Oil
Garth Lenz, one of the world’s most famous conservation photographers and his TED Talk. He uses his stunning photography to illustrate exactly what happens to an ecosystem when we mine its tar sands to extract oil. It’s pretty shocking to … Continue reading
From one predator to another
Animal-human interaction can always offer a new surprise.
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How the potato changed the world
From a piece by Charles C. Mann that makes the compelling case for how the potato changed everything. The effects of this transformation were so striking that any general history of Europe without an entry in its index for S. … Continue reading
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When Betty was Big
More cool data visualizations at Many Eyes. This one is from here, check out the boy names too.
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The Science of Multitasking
Interesting read. From BoingBoing Eyal Ophir was primary researcher on the pioneering Stanford Multitasking study. I think heavy multitaskers are not less effective – they simply have a different goal. A different set of priorities. Where you might say traditionally … Continue reading
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The people really running things
From the New Scientist: As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly … Continue reading
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Locking magnetism in 3 dimensions
One of those viral videos, but still pretty cool.
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Ad of the week
Nissan steps up, wonderful.
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