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There are many diff snake venoms that do many diff things. This one apparently clots blood in seconds. Amazing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvnjCkLbvY …
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Lovely musing on Poe's "spookily intuitive" (an apt phrase) vision of the Big Bang by @newsbeagle http://nautil.us/blog/edgar-allan-poe-part_time-cosmologist--big_bang-philosoper …
Another phenomenal @aatishb story: how curvature gives strength to so much around us, from pizza to mantis shrimps http://www.wired.com/2014/09/curvature-and-strength-empzeal/ …
"Cute." - Devastating one-word review of Apple smartwatch by time-turner expert Hermione Granger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqTLETOYkQg …
Frontal Cortex: Um Ferris has accidentally agreed to interview scientists in Spanish. High school Spanish Neural Circuits: ALL HANDS ON DECK
This time, Eve has...a few questions about that "apple." Eve The Foodie: a short piece I wrote for McSweeney's http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/eve-the-foodie …
I wrote about Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's map of Ulysses, and the link between mind and feet for @NewYorker @elements http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think?src=mp …
"Martha, Martha, Martha!" - Jan, the second-to-last passenger pigeon
An extinct *enormous* relative of the orangutan co-existed w/ early humans for thousnds of yrs http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-bigfoot-really-exist-how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct-16649201/?no-ist … http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/giganto.html …
A little taste of the potato's great diversity. Souvenirs from a few days visiting farms upstate pic.twitter.com/f9xcqlO9Og
If you enjoyed my blog on elephant genius http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2014/02/26/searching-for-the-elephants-genius-inside-the-largest-brain-on-land/ … I'd love your vote in the @3QD contest! http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/08/vote-now-for-one-of-the-nominees-for-the-3qd-science-prize-2014.html … (#10)
Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Also featuring the time I got lost in Disneyland as a toddler. You'll never believe what happened next. http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went …
What exactly does the brain do with all those "lost" early memories? My story for the @NautilusMag Nothingness issue http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went …
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