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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Extinction Countdown
Are Zoos Failing Amphibians?
Nearly 94 percent of threatened amphibians have been ignored by the world’s top zoos
Rosetta Stones
Awesome A'A Lava Videos for Your Viewing Pleasure
Hawaiian lava flows are awesome! We watch videos of firey a'a flows.
Tetrapod Zoology
Speculative Zoology Grand and Photoreal: Boulay and Steyer's Demain, les Animaux du Futur
Speculative Zoology has become a big draw here at Tet Zoo and I’ve now had reason to write about the subject on quite a few occasions (see links below). Today I’m writing about it again because a very interesting book wholly devoted to the subject has recently appeared: artist Marc Boulay and palaeontologist Sébastien Steyer’s Demain, les Animaux du Futur.....
Food Matters
Signal to Noise Special on GMOs
A new issue of Signal to Noise is all about GMOs - from the basic science to patents and environmental impact.
Observations
Google Will No Longer Build Driverless Cars
Co-founders Page and Brin create a collection of companies called Alphabet that let Google focus on search while others shoot for the moon
Guest Blog
Traveling to Another Planet? Just Add Water!
How “spacecoaches” could revolutionize interplanetary travel
Illusion Chasers
Another da Vinci Smile Has Been Discovered
A long lost painting called "La Bella Principessa" reveals the earliest known use of his famous enigmatic smile technique from before the Mona Lisa was painted. The master seemed to intuit that the visual system is blurred in the periphery, and used the illusion to heightened effect in his art...
Cocktail Party Physics
Physics Week in Review: August 8, 2015
Harnessing spooky action in "quantacells," the physics of MMA fighter Rhonda Rousey, and remembering Hiroshima are among this week's physics highlights.
Tetrapod Zoology
Books of the TetZooniverse: of Palaeoart, Bats, Primates and Crocodylians
Time again to look at some recently published books relevant to the TetZooniverse - book on palaeoart, primates, bats, and crocodylians.....
Extinction Countdown
Ring-Tailed Lemurs Threatened by Illegal Pet Trade
Residents of Madagascar have stolen 28,000 lemurs from the wild in the past three years
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