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Tuesday, November 03
Intriguing slider animation showing relative sizes of things from a coffee bean down a carbon atom.
Wednesday, October 28
Why superstition should be taken out the back and shot in the head with a nail gun.
Friday, July 17
“ Traditionally when we have looked for genetic risk factors for, say, heart disease, we have assumed that the blood will tell us what’s happening in the tissue. It now seems this is simply not the case.
Wednesday, August 27
Monday, July 28
“ In lab experiments aimed to confirm work done more than three decades ago, researchers found that when treated with hydrogen, natural diamonds formed crystalline layers of water on the surface. Water is essential for life as we know it. Also, the tests found electrical conductivity that could have been key to forcing chemical reactions needed to generate the first birth.
Monday, April 28
Sunday, December 16
“ The widespread assumption that human evolution has slowed down because it’s easier to live and we’ve conquered nature is absolutely not true. We didn’t conquer nature, we changed it in ways that created new selection pressures on us,
Wednesday, September 26
Friday, July 20
