Sunday, September 1, 2024

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"Thinking about a UFO as some kind of extraterrestrial spaceship is naive."

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Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com).

The academic and author draws on quantum mechanics, English romantic philosophy and mysticism to explore a new theory of mind that embraces the paranormal Jeffrey J Kripal is a professor of philosophy and religious thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is the author of 10 books on the history of mysticism, psychology and the paranormal. His latest, How to Think Impossibly , draws on a

Readers reply: What is the evolutionary purpose of blushing?

Science | The Guardian / 12h

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts What is the evolutionary purpose of blushing? Peter Walls , Liverpool Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com . Continue reading...

‘Why did I hurt?’ A writer on grieving the father she never really knew

Science | The Guardian / 12h

When my father died my grief was deep – for him and the dad I wished he’d been Grief is a thing with wings. It swoops in when and how it wants, often uninvited. When I think of my father, I think of sound. His laughter: a deep rumble from his slightly distended gut, ending with a sigh, as if he were reluctant to let it go. The gentle push of his windscreen-shaped glasses up the bridge of his nose

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David Ish-Horowicz obituary

Science | The Guardian / 8h

My uncle David Ish-Horowicz, who has died aged 75 from a brain tumour, was a molecular biologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), now Cancer Research UK (CRUK), from the late 1970s. He was one of the pioneers in the application of molecular biology to developmental genetics. His research career focused on unravelling the intricate mechanisms that govern how embryos turn into complex o

Yesterday

How a little-known 17th-century female scientist changed our understanding of insects

Science | The Guardian / 16h

Maria Sibylla Merian’s beautiful and disturbing illustrations, which shaped how we look at the natural world, will be on show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum More than three centuries after she made a perilous transatlantic voyage to study butterflies, a rare copy of the hand-coloured masterwork by the great naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian is returning to Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum, which h

‘She was right and they were wrong’: the female astronomers hidden by science’s male elite

Science | The Guardian / 16h

As a new play examines the work of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, we celebrate the women whose crucial discoveries were ignored or suppressed Eighty-five years ago, several dozen eminent astronomers posed for a photograph outside the newly constructed McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis in Texas. All were men – with one exception. Half-concealed by a man in front of her, the face of a solitary woman

They say turning 44 brings ‘dramatic change’. I can’t wait | Eva Wiseman

100+Science | The Guardian / 17h

With a biologically significant birthday looming, it’s time to take stock – and get ready to embrace whatever comes next Recently I’ve been going through old photographs. My parents are clearing out their loft and I’ve been forced, finally, to confront the boxes of A-level sketchbooks and towers of 90s magazines, and let it all go. The photographs, though, are interesting. It’s a cliché, I know,

African nations hit by mpox still waiting for vaccines – despite promises by the west

Science | The Guardian / 19h

Last week’s planned rollout of doses faces further delays as campaigners complain of greed and inequality None of the African countries affected by the outbreak of a new variant of mpox have received any of the promised vaccine, pushing back a rollout that had been planned for last week. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been at the centre of an outbreak of the new clade 1b variant,

‘Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds

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Lidded vessel is star object in rich Galloway Hoard and came from silver mine in what is now Iran It is a star object of the Galloway Hoard , the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, buried in AD900 and unearthed in a field in Scotland. Now a lidded silver vessel has been identified as being of west Asian origin, transported halfway around the world more than

I find conversations with dates dissatisfying, specially when they tell me the plots of films | Ask Philippa

100+Science | The Guardian / 20h

Just interrupt and say, ‘Sorry, I can’t bear film plots’ The question I am a woman in my 30s and I notice I can find conversation unfulfilling. When I am with new people, I find myself either having a bit of commentary in my head or doing lots of listening to their problems, as they might overshare things and I feel as if they are dumping on me. Such conversation feels unsatisfactory. This is not

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