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Top 5 BIGGEST Trees on Earth

Posted on January 21, 2019 by

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How Trees Secretly Talk to Each Other in the Forest | Decoder

Posted on January 21, 2019 by

What do trees talk about? In the Douglas fir forests of Canada, see how trees “talk” to each other by forming underground symbiotic relationships—called mycorrhizae—with fungi to relay stress signals and share resources with one another.

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Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

Posted on January 18, 2019 by

More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades — where people can stroll … Continue reading →

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Harvesting the World’s Most Expensive Spice

Posted on January 17, 2019 by

Kashmiri saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, and for good reason. Found only in a certain region of Kashmir in northern India, farmers have been harvesting the red gold for hundreds of years. For farmer Ali Mohammad … Continue reading →

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Late Afternoon

Posted on January 14, 2019 by

Emily is an elderly woman who lives between two states, the past and the present. She journeys into an inner world, reliving moments from her life. She searches for a connection within her vivid, but fragmented memories. Written and directed … Continue reading →

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Model Moostapha Saidi Questions the Audience’s Gaze with Highly Stylized Portraits Shot by Justin Dingwall

Posted on January 11, 2019 by

Photographer Justin Dingwall recently collaborated with South African model Moostapha Saidion a series of images that speak to themes of perspective and of perception. “A Seat at the Table” was informed by Saidi’s experiences living with the skin condition vitiligo, in addition to conversations … Continue reading →

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An Incredible Aerial Tour of Earth’s Surface from the International Space Station

Posted on January 10, 2019 by

Philadelphia-based photographer and videographer Bruce W. Berry Jr. brings together images from the International Space Station (ISS) in his new time-lapse video, The World Below. Berry used public content from NASA to form the meditative short film that reads like a supersized … Continue reading →

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Empty Space is NOT Empty

Posted on January 8, 2019 by

An atom is mostly empty space, but empty space is mostly not empty. The reason it looks empty is because electrons and photons don’t interact with the stuff that is there, quark and gluon field fluctuations. It actually takes energy … Continue reading →

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Why is glass transparent? – Mark Miodownik

Posted on January 8, 2019 by

If you look through your glasses, binoculars or a window, you see the world on the other side. How is it that something so solid can be so invisible? Mark Miodownik melts the scientific secret behind amorphous solids.

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Odyssey of the Ear

Posted on January 7, 2019 by

Go on an epic journey with a trio of musicians into the depths of the human auditory system. A wild tale filled with beasts and storms and strange faceless dancing humans armed with larger-than-life ossicles. Produced for thefundamentalsofneuroscience.org Animation by … Continue reading →

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