Just Plain WEIRD #2
Scientists have found a potential new weapon against breast cancer in the venom of honeybees. Nowhereman/Depositphotos – By Nick Lavars 2020 Sep 01 – The natural world is full of compounds that can do us harm, but medical scientists continue to show us how …
Painting depicting transfiguration of Jesus, a story in the New Testament when Jesus becomes radiant upon a mountain. Artist Raphael /Collections Hallwyl Museum, CC BY-SA – Author Anna Swartwood House, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina 2020 Jul 17 …
There’s more going on than just melting glaciers and sea-level rise. Photo by Artem Beliaikin @belart84 on Unsplash – By Maddie Bender, Microbial Disease Epidemiology, Yale University 2019 Sep 25 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released their …
A “quantum time travel simulator” suggests that the butterfly effect doesn’t apply to the quantum realm. MikhailLeonov/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2020 Jul 29 – Time travel movies have different rules about what happens when you start messing around with the timeline. If you’ve …
Ordinary food coloring suspended in tiny droplets in the air can generate oxygen free radicals that collide with airborne virus particles. wwing/iStock/Getty Images Plus – 2020 Aug 20 Authors Young Kim Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Hee-Jae Jeon Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical …
An experiment in Botswana suggests a non-lethal deterrent for predatory lions. Image source: Ben Yexly/UNSW – By Robby Berman 2020 Aug 12 – Lions help maintain balance in their ecosystems, but they also kill cattle. The big cats are ambush predators who depend …
The inventor at rest, with a Tesla coil (thanks to a double exposure). Dickenson V. Alley, Wellcome Collection, CC BY – By Richard Gunderman, Chancellor’s Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University Updated 2020 Aug 14 – Match the following figures …
Contributed by Elizabeth Rayne, @quothravenrayne 2020 Aug 16 – Jurassic seas were swimming with strange life forms. Crinoids could have passed for extras in Little Shop of Horrors if it had an aquarium, and eerier still, these creatures without a brain somehow figured out how …
The Pentagon is forming a new task force to investigate UFOs – By Ryan Browne Updated 10:31 PM ET, Thu 2020 Aug 13 – Washington (CNN) The Pentagon is forming a new task force to investigate UFOs that have been observed by US …
Vintage woman – Shutterstock – By Debra Kelly/Updated: 2020 Jul 14 – History is filled with episodes that prove mankind is just sort of making everything up as it goes. There’s no shortage of things that can kill us or do horrible, terrible …
