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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Does This Robot Freak You Out?

Nov 28, 2017
Something like Atlas, Spot and Handle will likely inhabit the world we're now building — and their weirdness will be just commonplace, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.
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Video: A View Of A Breathing Earth

Nov 27, 2017
In this visualization, based on data collected by scientists, we see Earth changing — its plants, surface winds, and sea currents responding to the energy coming from the sun, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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From 'Inky's Great Escape' To Singing Seahorses: Animal Books For The Holidays

Nov 22, 2017
From real-life, seaweed-carrying dolphins to fictional singing seahorses, animals in these new books can excite the mind, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
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Can Science Explain The Human Mind?

Nov 20, 2017
Science will one day explain visual perception and memory loss. But will it also explain romantic love and morality? Tania Lombrozo considers people's beliefs about what science can and can't explain.
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The Big Idea Behind Big Data

Nov 17, 2017
As we find our way in a world shaped by Big Data, it's not the reams of information we gather but the networks they illuminate that's the newest addition to science's index of things, says Adam Frank.
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Screen shot from a YouTube video clip from the film <em>Mountain Gorilla: A Shattered Kingdom</em>.

Video: An Interspecies Flying Lesson

Nov 16, 2017
Gorilla naturalist? Barbara J. King suggests watching this young male gorilla in the Virunga Mountains during his close-up encounter with a baby owl.
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'Leaf Wonder' In A World Of Changing Forests

Nov 15, 2017
Together, aesthetic awareness and scientific analysis puts us in direct, sensory relationship with the forest and gives us the ability to understand what we see, says author David George Haskell.
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Nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, as seen on a 2001 USA postage stamp.

On The Alien Question: Where Are They?

Nov 14, 2017
The great physicist Enrico Fermi asked this question in the 1950s. There are more than 50 possible "solutions" to Fermi's Paradox: Here, astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser explores a few.
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Um, Uh, Huh? Are These Words Clues To Understanding Human Language?

Nov 13, 2017
Tiny filler words in human rapid-fire conversation hold the key to understanding how language is unique, according to a new book. But anthropologist Barbara J. King raises some questions.
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This view of a stellar nursery taken by the Very Large Telescope on May 23, 2013,  also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray globules silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula.

The Answer To Life, The Universe — And Everything? It's 63

Nov 12, 2017
Over time, the expansion of the cosmos and the passage of light has unlocked 63 orders of magnitude to us, each one a new opportunity for novelty and complexity, says guest blogger Caleb Scharf.
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with EPA chief Scott Pruitt on June 1 after speaking about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

Certain And Confident: Predicting The Future In A Climate-Changing World

Nov 10, 2017
The Climate Science Special Report, released by the White House last week, is a valuable read — it's a primer on how science works when it overlaps with the need to make informed bets on our future.
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Monks For A Month: College Kids Give Up Talking — And Technology

Nov 09, 2017
Students in this "Living Deliberately"' class embrace asceticism and challenge stereotypes of college kids who can't put down their cellphones, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
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Stromatolites (deposits built by colonies of cyanobacteria), are seen underwater at high tide in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

The Interdependence Of Humanity And Earth

Nov 08, 2017
We owe our existence to little photosynthetic bacteria — but there is much more to this story, as life can only mutate and adapt when the planet offers the right conditions, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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The original historical documents related to Albert Einstein's prediction of the existence of gravitational waves are seen at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Feb. 11, 2016.

How Do Gravitational Waves Really Work?

Nov 07, 2017
Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time — are a big deal in the world of science. Here's a video that helps explain how they work.
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What's Your (Epistemic) Relationship To Science?

Nov 06, 2017
Tania Lombrozo looks at a new paper arguing that research on the public's understanding of science often conflates knowledge and understanding — and that this conflation has costs.
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American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, photographed during a discussion with SFX Magazine on June 8, 2012.

Writing On The Terrifying Beauty Of The Human Future

Nov 02, 2017
Author Kim Stanley Robinson deserves a place as a true visionary: He has done more than just write good science-fiction — he's mapped out new territory in what it means to be human, says Adam Frank.
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When More Vegan Meals Are The Goal, What Is The Strategy?

Nov 01, 2017
Activist Tobias Leenaert counsels vegans and vegetarians to focus on vegan meals rather than vegan identities — and to talk encouragingly with meat reducers, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
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Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.

Did The EPA Censor Its Scientists?

Oct 29, 2017
Last week, EPA scientists were pulled from speaking at a meeting where they would address climate change. New EPA leaders were quickly accused of censoring their own scientists, says Adam Frank.
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The Astronomers Monument in Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, Calif. shows Johannes Kepler in the center flanked by Isaac Newton, on the left and Galileo Galilei on the right.

When The State Sinks, Science Is The Anchor

Oct 26, 2017
As history has shown, political and ideological repression passes — but scientific knowledge remains, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.
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Mama celebrates her 50th birthday on May 3, 2007 with fruit and vegetables at the Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, Holland.

Watch The Moment A Dying Chimpanzee Recognizes An Old Friend

Oct 24, 2017
We may all tear up watching this elderly chimpanzee reunite with a friend at the end of her life — a testament to the complexity of animal thinking and feeling, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
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NBC's "The Good Place" cast during the Aug. 2, 2016. press appearance (left to right): William Jackson Harper, Ted Danson, D'Arcy Carden, Kristen Bell, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto.

The Good Psychology In 'The Good Place'

Oct 23, 2017
Despite my skepticism at the outset, for a light and amusing TV sitcom "The Good Place" does a pretty good job with philosophy — and a pretty good job with human psychology, too, says Tania Lombrozo.
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Should College Professors Give 'Tech Breaks' In Class?

Oct 19, 2017
Is it necessary coddling or just good science to give college students breaks to check their phones in class? Anthropologist Barbara J. King takes a look.
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David Reitze of the California Institute of Technology and the executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on Oct. 16. He talks of one of the most violent events

A New Era For Astronomy Has Begun

Oct 18, 2017
Astronomy is forever changed by the viewing of the collision of neutron stars; we can now watch these processes in many different ways as they run their course, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.
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A composite image of Saturn's moon Titan taken by the Cassini spacecraft.

Confession Of A Planetary Scientist: 'I Do Not Want To Live On Mars'

Oct 16, 2017
Mars is not compelling as a long-term human destination, says guest blogger Amanda Hendrix. But there's a place in our solar system where conditions are right: Saturn's Moon Titan.
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Is Harrison Ford An Android In 'Blade Runner'?

Oct 13, 2017
Ever since the first movie achieved cult status, fans have hotly debated if Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, is a replicant. Blade Runner 2047 leaves room for argument, says fan Adam Frank.

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