Pete ConryInheritance Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is UncertainQuanta Magazine - Viviane Callier Studies suggest that epigenetics allows some learned adaptive responses to be passed down to new generations. The question is how. Rechavi says that …
Pete ConryLego Lego's New Dinosaur Fossils Turn Your Desk Into a Miniature Natural History MuseumGizmodo - Andrew Liszewski You can claim to be interested in historical artifacts like pottery, suits of armor, and maybe even a mummy, but the most compelling reason to visit …
Pete ConryThe Future The strange link between the human mind and quantum physicsBBC News - By Philip Ball"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles paradoxes
Pete ConryCulture “Cytokinesis Variations” Show Cell Division in Dramatic 3 Foot-Wide Paper Sculptures by Rogan Brown | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Laura Staugaitis Paper artist Rogan Brown (previously) uses an accessible, universally recognized material to convey complex and minuscule biological processes. Two …
Pete ConryBronze Age Puzzling artifacts found at Europe's oldest battlefieldNational Geographic - Erin BlakemoreArchaeologists have spent decades trying to figure out who fought near Germany's Tollense River some 3,300 years ago. Now, an unusual cache deepens the mystery of the brutal battle. Since 1997, archaeologists
Pete ConryPrefab Homes How Tree House Master Pete Nelson Built an Empire in the Woodsdwell - Marissa HermansonNow that the TV series “Treehouse Masters” is wrapped, we catch up with builder Pete Nelson to hear the story behind his arboreal empire, and what’s on the horizon. Over the past six years Pete Nelson
Pete ConryScience New seismic phenomenon discovered, named stormquakesNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasThe curious bursts of energy are born from massive storms and can radiate thousands of miles across continents. Below the rumble of passing cars, chirping birds, and rustling leaves, the Earth is constantly
Pete ConryScience Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexesReuters - by Thierry Chiarello and Kathryn CarlsonPARIS (Reuters) - A Paris zoo showcased a mysterious new organism on Wednesday, dubbed the "blob", a yellowish unicellular small living being which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal. This newest
Pete ConryUniverse How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?space.com - David Crookes For more than 100 years, astronomers have been observing a curious star located some 190 light years away from Earth in the constellation Libra. It …
Pete ConryCulture 18th Century Butts, Moving Statues And Other 'Metropolitan Stories'NPR - Ari Shapiro , Gustavo ContrerasEvery year, millions of people visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It holds thousands of years of art history: Egyptian temples, Renaissance sculptures, iconic 20th century paintings. "For
Pete ConryGoogle Maps The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York NeighborhoodAtlas Obscura - Isaac Schultz Maps are reflections of our world—how it is organized, how we experience it—or at least that’s what they’re supposed to be. At their best, maps help …
Pete ConryBiological Species Extraordinary pictures of the most ancient trees on EarthGizmodo - Omar Kardoudi Photographer Beth Moon spent 14 years traveling around the world taking pictures of the most ancient trees on Earth. The resulting photos—printed in …
Pete ConryInnovation San Francisco is radically redesigning a major street to get rid of carsFast Company - Adele PetersThe city just approved a plan to redesign Market Street, making it safer for pedestrians, adding protected bike lanes, and eliminating private vehicles to help speed up buses and lower the injury count
Pete ConryAva DuVernay Ava DuVernay and Netflix are being sued by the company behind the interrogation tactics in ‘When They See Us’Fast Company - KC IfeanyiThe Reid technique has been panned by researchers claiming the method creates false testimonies—and now it’s created a lawsuit. When Ava DuVernay’s miniseries When They Us premiered on Netflix back in
Pete ConryWater The Mystery of Moon WaterThe Atlantic - Marina KorenThe lunar supply won’t be anything like the stuff on Earth, but NASA wants it anyway. The impact sent a plume of lunar material from the moon’s south pole flying out into space. For a few minutes, the
Pete ConryCulture Harold Bloom, A Rare Best-Selling Literary Critic, Dies At 89NPR - Neda UlabyHarold Bloom was a rarity: a best-selling and widely known literary critic. Affectionately dubbed the "King Kong" of criticism, Bloom died Monday at the age of 89, at a hospital in New Haven, Conn., according
Pete ConryPhilip Pullman Philip Pullman’s Problem With GodThe Atlantic - James ParkerIn His Dark Materials, now an HBO series, the author takes on organized religion. It’s not a fair fight. In a bone-picking mood, I will sometimes imagine that I have a problem with the English writer Pullman,
Pete ConryScience 3000-year-old toolkit suggests skilled warriors crossed Europe to fight an epic battlesciencemag.org - Andrew Curry Bronze Age Europe was a violent place. But only recently have scientists uncovered the scope of the violence, at a 3000-year-old site in northern …
Pete ConryUniversity of Oxford Why people associate ‘cold’ with luxury productsFast Company - Mark WilsonLook, there’s nothing great about being cold. Winter is fun for about five minutes of skiing and throwing snowballs, and then it’s time to hole up for three months next to a fire while you guzzle hot and
Pete ConryLong-form Journalism Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89The New York Times - By DINITIA SMITHHarold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also — unusual for an —
Pete ConryTechnology (India) These algae tiles can turn any building into a pollution-scrubbing machineFast Company - Evan Nicole BrownThanks to algae’s natural talent for sucking pollutants and toxins out of water, the tiles offer a passive, accessible way to clean wastewater. The aquatic plants referred to as algae are single-celled,
Pete ConryCapitalism Marc Benioff: We Need a New CapitalismThe New York TimesOver the past 20 years, the company that I co-founded, Salesforce, has generated billions in profits and made me a very wealthy person. I have been fortunate to live a life beyond the wildest imaginations
Pete ConryQuantum Mechanics How Randomness Can Arise From DeterminismQuanta Magazine - Pradeep Mutalik Playing with a simple bean machine illustrates how deterministic laws can produce probabilistic, random-seeming behavior. Is nature inherently random? …
Pete ConryIndigenous Peoples Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You're Actually Living OnPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanAs more and more communities recognize October 14th as Indigenous People's Day, the question of how best to celebrate indigenous people arises. A good first step is learning about which tribes resided
Pete ConryDesign Dear Apple and Google: It’s time to stop releasing a new phone every yearFast Company - Mark Wilson“I don’t think it’s sustainable. But currently, nobody wants to admit it.” You used to need a new smartphone every year or two. It’s hard to remember now, upgrading to a new generation of phone once meant
Pete ConryPhotography Ghost TowersThe New Yorker - Hashem ShakeriAfter the Iranian Revolution, in 1979, the theocracy called on women to breed a new Islamic generation. It lowered the marriage age to nine for girls and fourteen for boys; it legalized polygamy and raised
Pete ConrySingularity Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire RocketsWIRED - Condé Nast For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labor, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot …
Pete ConryScience Listen to an Underwater Volcano Burp 750-Foot BubblesWIRED - Condé Nast On July 7, 1908, the cutter Albatross was cruising the volcanic islands of Alaska when the sea began to swell into a dome the size of the nation’s …
Pete ConryBusiness WeWork Planned a Residential Utopia. It Hasn’t Turned Out That Way.The New York Times - By MATTHEW HAAG, REBECCA LIEBSON and ANDREA SALCEDOAfter first pledging to upend the way people worked, WeWork vowed to change how they lived: WeLive, a sleek dormitory for working professionals with free beer, arcade games in the laundry room and catered
