More than a century ago, the zoologist Richard Semon coined the term “engram” to designate the physical trace a memory must leave in the brain, like a…… Read more “Brain Cell DNA Refolds Itself to Aid Memory Recall | Quanta Magazine”
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Virtually Blind Mole-Rats Use Their Eyes to ‘See’ Magnetic Fields, Experiment Shows
In the gloom of subterranean tunnels, chonky little mole-rats build their nests, tucked safely away, deep inside the earth. Strangely, one species always carefully builds these nests…… Read more “Virtually Blind Mole-Rats Use Their Eyes to ‘See’ Magnetic Fields, Experiment Shows”
Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World | Open Culture
Sounds of the Forest: A Free Audio Archive Gathers the Sounds of Forests from All Over the World | Open Culture — Read on http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/sounds-of-the-forest.html
The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them | Aeon Essays
Birds have always been important ‘markers’, associated with particular seasons, times and places. In the ancient world, weather and seasonal changes were matters of vital consequence for…… Read more “The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them | Aeon Essays”
How Fiction Allows Us to Inhabit Animal Consciousness | Literary Hub
For centuries, human thinking—at least in the West—has been dominated by the notion, said to have originated with Aristotle, of the Scala Naturae, or the Ladder —…… Read more “How Fiction Allows Us to Inhabit Animal Consciousness | Literary Hub”
When did humans discover how to use fire? | Live Science
Whenever fire use did arise, humans’ ability to capture and control wildfires — or create fires of their own — had massive impacts on the species’ evolution.…… Read more “When did humans discover how to use fire? | Live Science”
How the geometry of ancient habitats may have influenced human brain evolution | Ars Technica
There’s a pivotal scene in the 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey when Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, and a company of dwarves are chased by orcs through…… Read more “How the geometry of ancient habitats may have influenced human brain evolution | Ars Technica”
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World | IndieBound.org
Award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants. “We want to live as if there is…… Read more “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World | IndieBound.org”
The Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean • Earth.com
Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features an astronaut view of the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. On the western side of the…… Read more “The Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean • Earth.com”
Overblown and under-loved: wind farms at the edge of beauty | Aeon Essays
In The Great Animal Orchestra, Bernie Krause defines soundscape by breaking it down into ‘geophony’ — the sounds made by the physical environment (wind, water, etc); ‘biophony’…… Read more “Overblown and under-loved: wind farms at the edge of beauty | Aeon Essays”
