Category: essence
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Lungs and limbs… Fish and wolves…
Lungs and limbs have been thought of as key innovations that came with the vertebrate transition from water to land. But in fact, the genetic basis of air-breathing and limb movement was already established in our fish ancestor 50 million years earlier, according to a recent genome mapping of primitive fish. The new study changes…
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Diet. Definitions. (Empty) Forest…
Anthropologists used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet — contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers — is restructuring dentition and changing how people speak. (1) You are what you eat. You are what you breath. You are…
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Knowing thy name…
Physicists surprised to find that in specially coated tubes, the more viscous a liquid is, the faster it flows. (1) Water. Dripping fast. Honey. Dripping slow. Things changing. Only because of things changing. Honey. Dripping fast. Water. Dripping slow. Ask yourself. Would you ever ask why? Oh, wise man… (What is your name?)
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Essence over Form…
What clues does our memory use to connect a current situation to a situation from the past? A study conducted by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, – working in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University in France – demonstrated that similarities in structure and essence (the heart of a situation) guide our…
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Mandelbrot coffee…
Nature keeps on repeating itself. And fractals are one of the best ways of showing that. In the nothing I made coffee. And the shapes developed on its surface were very much like the Mandelbrot shape one can see in almost all the chaos theory textbooks. Take a look… What does that mean? I don’t…
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