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Wed, 24 Jul 2013

PIA17171Earth from Saturn’s orbit via Cassini

  • Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking
  • The Sun, gravitational lensing and the 70 billion mile telescope
  • DNA from a Russian cave: The Case of the Missing Ancestor
  • Optogenetics: a new technique to controlling genes with light
  • Scientists discover the molecule responsible for causing feelings of depression
  • Life Satisfaction Linked to Personality Changes
  • The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements
  • From the Manson Myth to My Friendship with Charles Manson
  • The 11-year-old who ran away so she wouldn’t have to get married
  • Six Brain-Damage Scourges That Cripple IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Cool webpage design/animation: Riding the New Silk Road
  • Professor E. Paul Zehr on How Wolverine’s Claws Could Work
  • 18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style
  • 50 Great Works of Video Art That You Can Watch Online
  • Great re-issue review of (one of) my Mountain Goats favourites: All Hail West Texas
| astronomy/cosmology, biology, charles manson, comics, crime, dna, genetics, health, history, languages, mountain goats, neuroscience, social media, sociology, technology

“The beginning of the universe, for beginners” with Tom Whyntie

Thu, 11 Apr 2013

Via another great TEDEd lesson.

| astronomy/cosmology, science, TED, TEDEd, videos