Have you been sleeping perfectly this yr? If not, you’re not on your own. Nightmares about COVID-19—fears of remaining in crowded spaces, touching germy surfaces, sensation uncovered devoid of a mask—have been disturbing the snooze of folks all around the globe. The pandemic appears to have launched a new shared […]
Day: September 15, 2020
Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden
Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its one hundred seventy five-yr history. This yr we are compelled to do so. We do not do this evenly. The evidence and the science display that Donald Trump has badly destroyed the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and […]
Global learning: Educational research in an emerging field
In this paper, I will reflect upon the implications of today’s survival risks for humanity and the planet Earth and the challenges for education related to them. I call the contribution to these learning challenges ‘global learning’ and consider it as a central area of educational research for the future, […]
This ‘Small World’ Is Packed with Animated Beauty
In 1665 British scientist Robert Hooke printed his e book Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made with Magnifying Eyeglasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. It was 1 of the initially scientific operates to illustrate vegetation, insects and animals via the lens of a microscope. In the e […]
High-Elevation Hummingbirds Evolved a Temperature Trick
If a hummingbird has at any time visited your back garden, you’ve no doubt seen it flit from flower to flower, hovering mid-air, as it sips on nectar. That exercise needs plenty of power. So hummingbirds want a Good deal of nectar to feed their hungry metabolisms. “In reality some […]