Category: essence
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Past & Future… The link we do not see…
Ancient rocks provide clues to Earth's early history: A research team has provided compelling evidence for significant ocean oxygenation before the GOE, on a larger scale and to greater depths than previously recognized. (1) Looking for the past in rocks. Because we see the history as something solid. Written on stone. Fooled by the phenomena…
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Draw… you.
It's the archetypal child's drawing - family, pet, maybe a house and garden, and the child themselves. Yet, how do children represent themselves in their drawings, and does this representation alter according to who will look at the picture? A research found that children's expressive drawings of themselves vary according to the authority of and…
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Touching. Something you can never do...
Touching. The most essential of the senses. We touch to see. We touch to feel. We touch to know. We touch to love. And yet... What do we touch but mere boundaries? Limits of things, the touch of which tells us nothing. That table. It is more than its outer boundaries. It is a place…
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Iced water. With no ice. Alchemy. Summer breeze…
Water can remain liquid below zero degrees Celsius. It is called supercooled water and is present in refrigerators. At even smaller temperatures, supercooled water could exist as a cocktail of two distinct liquids. Unfortunately, the presence of ice often prevents us from observing this phenomenon. (1) Water has got super high surface tension and apparently,…
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