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Gasp! A Breathing Puzzle
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Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. November 10, 2015. Know is the way these creatures take in air and get their oxygen is nothing short of astonishing. So that’s our topic: mysterious breathers. We’re going to start with the familiar with you. Take a look at this pulsing how-we-breathe diagram. Created by the wonderful illustrator Eleanor Lutz. But what if you’re a bird? Birds, (we didn’t know this), do it differently. Or ears or anus. Insects (which means the...
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Who'll Freeze First? A Puzzle About Size and Staying Warm
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Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Who’ll Freeze First? A Puzzle About Size and Staying Warm. August 27, 2015. It’s 20 below freezing (that’s -11C), a bitterly cold wintry day in a Tennessee forest, and biologist David George Haskell takes his clothes off. All of them. On purpose. In Professor Haskell’s book, The Forest Unseen. This pattern isn’t universal. It governs only about two-thirds. Of mammal species, and bird. With so many different-sized, different-s...
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Science Archives | Empirical Zeal
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Taking delight in finding things out. Aatish Bhatia is a science writer and an Associate Director, Engineering Education, in Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. More info. At 350x magnification. License: Public Domain. What Your Bones Have in Common With the Eiffel Tower. Flickr; Right: Gray’s Anatomy. They used to describe it. 8220;this truly tragic street lamp” (Léon Bloy). 8220;Are we to belie...
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gravity Archives | Empirical Zeal
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Taking delight in finding things out. Aatish Bhatia is a science writer and an Associate Director, Engineering Education, in Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. More info. At 350x magnification. License: Public Domain. What Would Happen if the Earth Stopped In Its Orbit? Aatish Bhatia (modifying images under fair use). University of Colorado). You should see a planet orbiting the Sun. 8221; The a...
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eiffel Archives | Empirical Zeal
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Taking delight in finding things out. Aatish Bhatia is a science writer and an Associate Director, Engineering Education, in Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. More info. At 350x magnification. License: Public Domain. What Your Bones Have in Common With the Eiffel Tower. Flickr; Right: Gray’s Anatomy. They used to describe it. 8220;this truly tragic street lamp” (Léon Bloy). 8220;Are we to belie...
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bioinspiration Archives | Empirical Zeal
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Taking delight in finding things out. Aatish Bhatia is a science writer and an Associate Director, Engineering Education, in Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. More info. At 350x magnification. License: Public Domain. What Your Bones Have in Common With the Eiffel Tower. Flickr; Right: Gray’s Anatomy. They used to describe it. 8220;this truly tragic street lamp” (Léon Bloy). 8220;Are we to belie...
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What Your Bones Have in Common With the Eiffel Tower | Empirical Zeal
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Taking delight in finding things out. Aatish Bhatia is a science writer and an Associate Director, Engineering Education, in Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. More info. At 350x magnification. License: Public Domain. What Your Bones Have in Common With the Eiffel Tower. Flickr; Right: Gray’s Anatomy. They used to describe it. 8220;this truly tragic street lamp” (Léon Bloy). 8220;Are we to belie...
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bamboo Archives | Empirical Zeal
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Taking delight in finding things out. Aatish Bhatia is a science writer and an Associate Director, Engineering Education, in Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. More info. At 350x magnification. License: Public Domain. What Your Bones Have in Common With the Eiffel Tower. Flickr; Right: Gray’s Anatomy. They used to describe it. 8220;this truly tragic street lamp” (Léon Bloy). 8220;Are we to belie...
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How to Dance with a Tree: Visualizing Fractals With Dance | Empirical Zeal
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Taking delight in finding things out. Aatish Bhatia is a science writer and an Associate Director, Engineering Education, in Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. More info. At 350x magnification. License: Public Domain. How to Dance with a Tree: Visualizing Fractals With Dance. That’s part performance and part mathematical exploration. Imagine lifting your arms, and a tree waves its branches.
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