Science/Nature
Animals, Science/Nature
“Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness”
by JOHN ADAMS •
See, Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness @ Noticing.
Extra-Special Bonus: The link above about animals’ sizes includes a video trailer of the legendary B-movie, The Killer Shrews.
Science/Nature, Space
The Scale of the Universe (a Three-Minute Animation)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Science/Nature
Why Do Some Bees Die After Stinging?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Science/Nature
The Very, Very Clean Ant
by JOHN ADAMS •
Food, Poll, Science/Nature
Friday Poll: Bacon-Flavored Seaweed?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Bacon-Flavored Seaweed?Scientists in Oregon have created bacon-flavored seaweed: What grows quickly, is packed with protein, has twice the nutritional value of kale and tastes like bacon? The answer, according to scientists at Oregon State University, is a new strain of seaweed they recently patented. Dulse is a form of edible seaweed that grows wild along…
Science/Nature, Space
Live Coverage and Background on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto
by JOHN ADAMS •
America’s New Horizons probe is today at its closest point to Pluto, photographing and taking other measurements to learn more about that distant world. It’s much to America’s credit as a civilized place that she uses her technology not merely for her own interests, but also to advance human understanding. Over at The Verge, there’s…