W.Hyun, a friend shares a new book, podcast, article or museum exhibition, which they enjoyed, is a moment of delight and connection. In our team of editors here, in NautilusWe often share this among ourselves, and subsequent conversations almost always cause new ideas and other ways of research. But why keep it with us, we thought! We also want to share them with you.
In this spirit, here, very casually, 8 things in which I recently took:
1. I'm soft for a good story About precipitation. Layers at the science of the Cold War, and I have been more than sold. So This recent episode of the podcast from Inexplicable from Voks Around the middle of the century in Greenland and science, its early ice cores gave me. The Bits of the Greenland Rock from the base of the nucleus promised to reveal important information about how the climate of the Earth hesitated in a geologically recent past. But the site thickened when these important samples of deposits were missing. (Immersion in the science of the ice core also made me recall the beautiful cover history “Great forgetting“That we lose when the recordings on the ice are melt.)
2. I first learned the word “Tempeppology” during editing This is a fantastic work on paleoemppopology– Study of old storms (UPS, we will already return to sediment!). So, viewing episodes of podcast Otologic To listen, while I was recently in the weather, I was glad to see one (two, actually) for tempestologyA field of attention of these episodes pays a wide landscape of the science of hurricanes, which applies to cyclonic storms around the world. And I have never heard such a bright (and thought out) description about what it means to be a scientist flying on an airplane of research through a real hurricane.
3. In a more local airspace, I am inclined to think that the relationship with which they have with fruit flies are personal. (Especially if you are a random random Drosophila melanogaster The population of the owner is a special danger as the owner of the kitchen compost.) But we must give faith to our hearts to the side, if not love, at least gratitude. The role of fruits plays as the main model organisms, allowed countless medical, genetic and evolutionary scientific breakthroughs for decades. Thus, many were shocked by the fact that the current administration of the United States would stop financing Flybase, the largest centralized repository for Drosophila The data that was around about 780 generations of a fruit fly – or about 33 human years. The story has been covered with pieces from the moment of announcement this spring, but Deeper immersion in the article From NBC News reveals the degree of contractions. (People are now trying Croudfand to preserve these global scientific efforts.)
4. I misunderstood the name recent episode of the podcast 99% invisible called “The weeding is fundamental. As a gardener from fair weather, I was intrigued. Orlin in it Library book.) As a bonus segment of episode, he shows an interview with a real life, self -proclaimed “harmless Drudge”: Merriam-Uabster A lexicographer, who explains why lexicography “is extreme sports.” My mind was additionally blown up by an explanation of why once it was very useful to have a whole dictionary of words written back.
5. I admit, my old red Merriam-Uabster Now it is used mainly to give an additional height to the monitor of my computer. But I still keep it like a totem. As a journalist and editor, I am endless appreciation for verification of facts. I have worked with some stellar for many years, which sent me deeper in my records and research documents than I expected when I expected. Getting the right situation is an eternal goal. And an overview of verification of factsThe word is a painstaking word—Story Drafts to help do it. So I loved to read “History of the Universal Department for Verification of Facts in New York“(Published in A resident of New Yorka) that, like a little self -promotion, I would say that it is very fairly earned.
6. I also read ABOUT the ancient Bronze Age of the underwater city of Pavlopetri, not far from the coast of the Southern Greek Island. I learned about this when editing story Recently, we have published about the use of AI to search for aerial photographs for traces of ancient structures. Pavlopetri was discovered by modern researchers in the 1960s. It is believed that it was built about 5,000 years ago, but the city was raised by increasing sea level and earthquakes about 3000 years ago. Thus, unlike many dry archaeological places, they were not built, leaving more original urban planning and structural design untouched. Now this is the UNESCO Underwater Heritage website, but I read that you can still make excursions.
7. much further above sea level And closer to the house I ran last weekend in the Rocky Mountin National Park. During the admiration of a variety of peaks rising above the flash gold of the tree trees, this reminded me Recent article V National Geographic About the new method of measuring the mountains. Kai Xui, a doctor of philosophy, a student in computer science, proposed a formula for calculating the “jute” of the summit based on its steepness and its height above his environment – and not just the height above the distant level of the sea. It makes sense. Despite the fact that this summer I will still hold a small point of pride for the fact that he gained the highest peak in Colorado, Mt. Elbert (14,440 feet), although it has a relatively insignificant jute only 1412 feet. (More junks can be obtained on Xui Web site.)
8. But also trifles, can be influential. Because a small mistake went streaming Theodore Heisel (writing under the pseudonym Rosett Stone), quite chained in our family by chance. Which is suitable for the topic. As a parent of young children, it was an interesting way to start talking about a great idea of the effect of a butterfly. We will soon have discussions about chaotic systems. Maybe the next time we reread Fox in socksField
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