What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano

What is consciousness? – Michael S. A. Graziano

Here are two images of a house. There’s one obvious difference, but to this patient, P.S., they looked completely identical. P.S. had suffered a stroke that damaged the right side...

Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality - Lillian Faderman

Harvey Milk’s radical vision of equality – Lillian Faderman

By 1973, Harvey Milk had already been many things: naval officer, high school teacher, bit-part actor, and wandering hippie. But as he embarked on yet another life running a camera...

A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe

A brief history of dogs – David Ian Howe

Since their emergence over 200,000 years ago, modern humans have established homes and communities all over the planet. But they didn’t do it alone. Whatever corner of the globe you...

How to grow a glacier - M Jackson

How to grow a glacier – M Jackson

In the 13th Century, Genghis Khan embarked on a mission to take over Eurasia, swiftly conquering countries and drawing them into his expanding Mongol Empire. With his vast armies he...

Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? – Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

In 132 CE, Chinese polymath Zhang Heng presented the Han court with his latest invention. This large vase, he claimed, could tell them whenever an earthquake occurred in their kingdom–...

How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - Greg Foot

How to biohack your cells to fight cancer – Greg Foot

Ok, so you, are a 4 billion year old meat robot. Yeah, you heard me right. In fact, as you’re made of 30-ish trillion cells, and each of those have...

The wild world of carnivorous plants - Kenny Coogan

The wild world of carnivorous plants – Kenny Coogan

Little do they know it, but these six creatures are each about to experience a very unusual death. One-by-one, they will fall prey to the remarkable, predatory antics of… What...

Turbulence: One of the great unsolved mysteries of physics - Tomás Chor

Turbulence: One of the great unsolved mysteries of physics – Tomás Chor

You’re on an airplane when you feel a sudden jolt. Outside your window nothing seems to be happening, yet the plane continues to rattle you and your fellow passengers as...

The surprising reason our muscles get tired - Christian Moro

The surprising reason our muscles get tired – Christian Moro

You’re lifting weights. The first time feels easy, but each lift takes more and more effort until you can’t continue. Inside your arms, the muscles responsible for the lifting have...

The hidden network that makes the internet possible - Sajan Saini

The hidden network that makes the internet possible – Sajan Saini

In 2012, a team of Japanese and Danish researchers set a world record, transmitting 1 petabit of data— that’s 10,000 hours of high-def video— over a fifty-kilometer cable, in a...

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