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by kristenfrench 5mo ago
Trump’s firings of the National Science Board and his other attacks on science over the past year plus do more than just undermine science. They undermine national security, according to Rod Schoonover, ecological security expert and former
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by kristenfrench 5mo ago
volutionary novelties abound,” writes paleobiologist Douglas Erwin in the introduction to his new book The Origins of the New. Take grasses. They’ve carpeted the continents in undulating blankets of green, blue, and brown for millions and m
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by kristenfrench 5mo ago
"The standard of care, particularly for gender therapy, is what a lot of people would call exploratory therapy, where you’re absolutely allowed to talk to people in a non-directive way to help them understand themselves and explore the
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These Volcanoes Are Undead(nautil.us)
3 points by kristenfrench 6mo ago|2 comments
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by kristenfrench 6mo ago
So-called "extinct" volcanoes are filled with a lot more fury than their millennia-long slumber would suggest. These were the findings of an international team of scientists who recently reconstructed the long history of a 1,400-f
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by kristenfrench 6mo ago
From lazy ankle biters in a sea of lava to 16-foot heavies in a liquid methane lake, a new model developed by scientists from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, aptly named “PlanetWaves,” models waves on extreme planetary envir
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A Surfin' Safari to the Stars(nautil.us)
3 points by kristenfrench 6mo ago|1 comments
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by kristenfrench 11mo ago
they're psychologically adaptive, an evolutionary gift, says Coltan Scrivener. He was fun to chat with.
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by kristenfrench 11mo ago
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Just checked that link out and whoa, very cool.
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by kristenfrench 11mo ago
I'm so sorry you did not enjoy it! We wanted to bring Josie Kins' index and research to our readers and did reach out to them for a bit of background.
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by kristenfrench 1y ago
In an email, study author Hunter Schone followed up with these answers to my questions: What is the significance of the finding? Many treatments for phantom limb pain are built on the idea that the brain’s map of the missing limb gets scram
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Now We Know How Phanton Limb Tricks the Mind(nautil.us)
2 points by kristenfrench 1y ago|2 comments
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by kristenfrench 1y ago
People with phantom limb experience vivid sensations, and often pain, in the missing extremity. Based on animal studies, scientists have long believed that this phenomenon arises because maps of the missing limb in the brain get scrambled,
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by kristenfrench 2y ago
What do people think about giving legal rights of personhood to inanimate elements of nature as a conservation strategy? "The movement began in the 1970s with an essay titled “Should Trees Have Standing?—Toward Legal Rights for Natural
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by kristenfrench 2y ago
"The movement began in the 1970s with an essay titled “Should Trees Have Standing?—Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects,” by American law professor Christopher Stone. Stone wrote that the history of law has followed the arc of human
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by kristenfrench 2y ago
Would love to hear what you all think about this conservation idea..."rights of nature" for inanimate nature like waves.
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Surfing a Wave with Personhood Rights(nautil.us)
2 points by kristenfrench 2y ago|2 comments