Scientists receive too little peer-review training. Here’s one method from Nature for effectively peer-reviewing papers.
If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.
Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of the sun (it takes an hour, but you don’t have to watch it all)
Great visualisation that provides examples of life at different ocean depths. Keep diving to find the ‘Headless Chicken Fish’ and the ‘Flabby Whalefish’.
Love them or hate them, hugs are part of Western culture. But hugging is not as straightforward as it may seem. Where do your arms go? How long is too long?
Astronomical phenomena can have some funny names, like the star named ‘Sualocin’ (‘Nicolaus’ spelt backwards), or the nebula called ‘Dark Doodad’.
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