Steve Stewart-Williams on the evolution of language
Today, right near the end of The Ape That Understood The Universe (pp. 275-276), I had another What He Said moment: … Earlier I mentioned that humans have an innate capacity to learn language, but that...
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I spent today postponing but mostly organising my death
I have spent my day doing two important things. First, and this only took a moment, I swallowed an Osimertinib pill. I take one of these pills every day. How hard is that? Harder than you might...
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You can see every organ in the glass frog
Today’s ephemera at David Thompson’s blog has links to some excellent animal amusements. There is this scaredy cat. And my favourite for a good LOL is this very sensible cat. But the most seriously...
View ArticleThree especially good links to SteveStuWill
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I’ve been catching up with the SteveStuWill Twitter feed. This time, I’ve picked out just three creaturely amusements that particularly entertained me. I could have...
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Blue iceberg
Curiosità Scientifiche: How come? Here’s how: Blue icebergs form in 2 ways: either because they flipped upside down by emerging the submerged part out of the water, or because of extreme ice...
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Pfaith
Seen recently at a Facebook Friend’s page: While searching for more about this, I came upon this recent story: A single pill home cure for Covid could be available by the end of the year, according to...
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Shanghai sculpture of Rutherford splitting the atom and discovering the nucleus
Here: That’s either a very big atom or a very small Rutherford.
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I am starting to take exercise by doing exercises, which I have not done since my school days, which put me right off the whole idea. I am being supervised and guided and advised and encouraged by a...
View Article“It Charges 60 Times Faster Than Lithium-Ion …”
This sounds promising: The graphene aluminum-ion battery cells from the Brisbane-based Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) are claimed to charge up to 60 times faster than the best lithium-ion cells and...
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Perry de Havilland on those Covid demonstrations
Well, I managed to do a posting that I had merely hoped to do for Samizdata, about the Covid demo in London the weekend before last, linking back here to all the photos of it that I stuck up here....
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