Tag: life
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Sandcastles…
New research provides a solution for the century-and-half-old puzzle of why capillary condensation, a fundamentally microscopic phenomenon involving a few molecular layers of water, can be described reasonably well using macroscopic equations and macroscopic characteristics of bulk water. Is it a coincidence or a hidden law of nature? (1) Look at those children play. Building…
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Real. Possible. Stupid. God.
Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility, a team of neuroscientists has found. Its work offers new insights into the impact word choice has on how we make distinctions between what's real vs. what's merely possible. (1) But what is a ‘fact’? What do we know for…
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Happy. Birds. Silence…
A high biodiversity in our vicinity is as important for life satisfaction as our income, scientists found. All across Europe, the individual enjoyment of life correlates with the number of surrounding bird species. An additional 10% of bird species therefore increases the Europeans' life satisfaction as much as a comparable increase in income. Nature conservation…
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A small drop… A deep ocean…
Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic world. (1) Flow. From a small drop. To a small creek. A great river. Giant sea. A deep ocean. Bottomless souls. Shallow language full of self-interest and dead trees. What else can there be? But the things that are already…
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Can you love? Can you not understand?
To find out just how well the aging-in-community strategy is working, a University of Central Florida health management and informatics researcher examined three aging-in-community programs in Florida. Her study is among the first to examine some key variables for these programs. (1) Why do we need the old people? The simple answer does not compute…
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