Category: Science
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Tokyo’s skyline turns pink and purple colors before typhoon Hagibis
As Typhoon Hagibis approached Tokyo on Saturday, residents captured images of an unusually pink skyline that gradually turned a spooky purple. While beautiful the vivid skies augured what would become a dangerous storm that unleashed heavy rain and strong wind. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake also shook Tokyo shortly after. NPR reports 19 dead and 16 missing in…
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How 16-year-old Greta Thunberg inspired a climate strike movement
“No one is too small to make a difference,” says 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Ever since the Swede took to the Swedish Parliament last year to call for stronger climate action against global warming, she’s inspired similar strikes across the globe. On Friday, thousands of students skipped school and adults skipped work in cities…
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Connecting human brains to computers
“You could just think your query and download the relevant knowledge directly in your mind.” Forget Ritalin. Forget Google and Evernote acting as our second brains holding all the information we can’t. And instead, prepare for brain implants where the mind melds with machines. We don’t even have to type, click, or touch anything. We…
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Scientist Madeline Lancaster grows ‘mini-brains’
Neurological biologist Madeline Lancaster develops cerebral organoids or mini-brains, which she describes as “three-dimensional neural tissues generated from human stem cells which allow us to model human brain development.” In other words, organoids can model the architecture of a human embryonic brain. According to the Financial Times who interviewed the scientist, each organoid is about…
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The spherical nature of the Earth
The world is round, and it has been for some time despite the rise of the flat earth movement. Take a look at some of the armillary spheres below, starting with the Chinese diagram from 1092. Even back then, they had could rationalize that the Earth adopted a round shape. The curvy nature of the…
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Tesla’s American experience
He left Thomas Edison’s lab. He relinquished his Alternating Current (AC) royalties to Westinghouse to prevent the company from going bankrupt. Motivated by wonder and awe, he exploited his imagination to foresee the wireless networking and cell phones we have today. “Why can’t we photograph thought?” he once asked. Tesla was an artist working with…