Science and Passion

Back with boomwhackers.

How past is made.

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Octopus eggs hatching.

A clustering of German literature up to the turn of the 20th century, showing the clustering of different large-scale cultural movements.

Dialect continua in Europe.

Leonard Bernstein’s opera interpretation of Voltaire’s Candide.

Many Americans now have access to a commingled recycling system, which lets users mix plastic, glass, paper and metal together in one bin. It's much easier, but not nearly as efficient.

Read more: http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/19/researchers-create-genetic-map-of-the-british-isles/

What if humans disappeared?

An ancient Greek inscription in boustrophedon.  Every other line is written from right to left, with backwards characters.  This way of writing was common on ancient stone inscriptions.

Estimates of the extent of the Northern Cities Shift.

On July 4, 1960, the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard rang in Independence Day with a dire Associated Press report by one Norma Gauhn headlined “American Dialects Disappearing.” The problem, according to “speech experts,” was the homogenizing effect of “mass communications, compulsory education, [and] the mobility of restless Americans.” These conformist pressures...

A NOAA animation of the vanishing of the Arctic's oldest ice. (Read more here)