The Stuff From Which We Are Made

The Stuff From Which We Are Made

The medium in which light propagates is space. This space can curve. The curvature is not static. So, this space moves. Its behavior can be analyzed by a kind of fluid dynamics. Let us call this…
What Is Entropy?

What Is Entropy?

Entropy. A subject that comes back again and again and again and again and again in this blog. And so does the question in my inbox: "what exactly is entropy?" On the internet you can find a plethora…
Can texting be permanently harming our culture?

Can texting be permanently harming our culture?

Teenage youngsters around the world are rapidly evolving their communication habits with peers. This modern form of communications bypasses the 70,000 years of gene-culture coevolution that…
Astronomers: Paparazzi With Brains

Astronomers: Paparazzi With Brains

Stars live for a long time - millions of years - but near the end of their lives, some massive stars go through what astronomers call the yellow supergiant phase. Because the timeframe is so short,…
Rebellatrix: Ancient Canadian Killer Coelacanth

Rebellatrix: Ancient Canadian Killer Coelacanth

The iconic Coelacanth are fish well-known as ‘living fossils’. Coelacanths were thought to have died out with the dinosaurs and then a living one was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938,…
Update : Psychoacoustics Of Mongolian Gerbils

Update : Psychoacoustics Of Mongolian Gerbils

There are new clues in the quest for a fully coherent theory of the perception and neural representation of size-variant human vowels in the Mongolian gerbil. Previous investigations in the US (see:…