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Mar 5, 2023

Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on the Spirituality of Science and the Interconnectedness of Life Across Time, Space, and Species

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The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.

Mar 5, 2023

Why aren’t our everyday lives as ‘spooky’ as the quantum world?

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space

Why don’t we experience ‘quantum weirdness’ in our everyday lives? A brief dive into the current crossroads of quantum physics, as well as looking at how scientists may endeavour to solve lingering questions about the quantum world and help move forward our understanding of the Universe.

Mar 5, 2023

Scientists engineer ‘revolutionary electronic nose’ to sniff out diseases

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

UMass Amherst.

It can even detect smells given off by people afflicted with a wide range of medical conditions, such as asthma and kidney disease, according to a press release by the institution published Wednesday.

Mar 5, 2023

Upside-down anglerfish and other alien oddities spotted in one of the world’s deepest trenches

Posted by in category: futurism

Pictures from a submarine dive to the 20,000-foot-deep Kermadec Trench in the South Pacific reveal weirdos from the deep, some of which may be new to science.

Mar 5, 2023

Is it a millipede, or a rock? The ‘evidence’ we’ve already found life on Mars

Posted by in category: alien life

Group of academics say they have identified fossilised sponges, corals, worm eggs, algae and more on planet’s surface.

Is it a millipede? Is it a rock?

That is the question that is troubling some scientists who believe that life may already have been found on Mars, if you just look carefully enough.

Mar 5, 2023

Chimpanzees have their own language — and scientists just learned how they put “words” together

Posted by in category: evolution

The discovery of a chimp group’s 390-word “language” has profound implications for the evolution of human speech.

Mar 5, 2023

Philip K Dick :: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale :: Alternate Version :: Audiobook

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“We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” is a short story by Philip K. Dick first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April 1966. It features a melding of reality, false memory, and real memory. The story has been the subject of two film adaptations, 1990’s Total Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the story’s protagonist; and 2012’s same-titled with Colin Farrell in a similar role.

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Mar 5, 2023

Ask Ethan: Did our Universe really arise from nothing?

Posted by in category: cosmology

The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.

Mar 5, 2023

New analysis of ancient human protein could unlock secrets of evolution

Posted by in category: evolution

Tiny traces of protein lingering in the bones and teeth of ancient humans could soon transform scientists’ efforts to unravel the secrets of the evolution of our species.

Researchers believe a new technique – known as proteomics – could allow them to identify the proteins from which our predecessors’ bodies were constructed and bring new insights into the past 2 million years of humanity’s history.

Mar 5, 2023

It from Bit: Pioneering Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Information, the Nature of Reality, and Why We Live in a Participatory Universe

Posted by in category: cosmology

All things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe… Observer-participancy gives rise to information.