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Come on a surfin' safari with us...to the stars!
You can expect everything from lazy ankle biters in a sea of lava to 16-foot heavies in a liquid methane lake.
Based on PlanetWaves from @mit.edu + @whoi.edu. #surf #astronomy #science
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It was such a pleasure talking with Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social about the stories we tell about vice and blame, and her new book Original Sin, for @Nautil.us magazine.
"A story that positions your body as the enemy and you as a puppet rarely turns out to be a productive story," says behavior geneticist and author Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social in Nautilus.
Read Nautilus editor Kristen French's @kristenfrench.bsky.social interview w/ Harden at the link.
"If I say something, if I say something, if I say something after three times, you get irritated. But in music, we do that. You do that all the time. It’s always repetition. It’s nice."
Another great Q&A with @musiccognition.bsky.social by @kristenfrench.bsky.social
The 2nd law of thermodynamics famously points to death and decay--but, could there be another, overlooked law responsible for *increasing* order? Robert Hazen & @miquai.bsky.social make the argument in their new book, "Time's Second Arrow." I spoke with them for @nautil.us:
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Here's an engaging & accessible introduction to our studies of individual differences in how people respond to poetry, art, & music. @kristenfrench.bsky.social interviewed @giacomobignardi.bsky.social about the research he's leading to decipher the mysteries of “aesthetic chills”.
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I talked with @nautil.us about LSD, MAHA, eugenics, essentialism, Christ on the cross, and all the things I don't know: nautil.us/the-bad-seed...
Really nice piece by Kevin Berger in @nautil.us on the new biography of Tennyson by the master biographer of the Romantics Richard Holmes.
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Quantum interpretations may be empirically equivalent, but that doesn't mean their die hard fans don't enjoy trash talking the other teams. My own take on the spectator sport, for @nautil.us nautil.us/reality-exis...
Simon Fisher
Giacomo Bignardi
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Cool!
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Freya, 🏳️⚧️ Tiefling Princess
What It Would Be Like to Surf Five Distant Planets: A surfing safari of the cosmos
Recent genomic research has shown that pythons activate roughly 2,000 genes within minutes of consuming a meal. They can genetically enlarge organs like the heart, intestine, liver, and kidneys to process huge meals. 🧪
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Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
