Clever as a Fox
Sometimes we see things so often that we simply forget to ask “why are they like that?” For instance, let’s take a closer look at domestic animals. Dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs – animals that we live with, and who couldn’t live without us.
Koide’s Formula
Finding a beautiful and simple equation for something in the natural world is fascinating to me – it’s like picking at a corner of loose wallpaper in your room and suddenly seeing the scrolling green text of the Matrix on the wall behind it.
The Trees of Mars
Science is a far more dynamic process than many realize. The constant upheaval of new measurements and new data forces us to constantly reassess our theories and our very view of how well we know the world.
Elementary Cellular Automata
Oddly enough, this is not referring to an indie rock band or a Transformer – but rather to a very simple set of rules that has surprisingly complex results.
TED Talks – Mushrooms Can Save the World
Mushrooms can save the world – and Paul Stamets wants to tell you how. Thinking in unconventional ways is something he has spent a lifetime doing. Paul loves mushrooms – or more correctly, he loves fungi.
The Fracture Modes of Spaghetti
Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France have written a wonderful little paper on the fracture mechanics of thin brittle rods, aka spaghetti.
