I am an advocate for not naming things after people but Ed Balls day almost makes me want to change my mind.
https://johnager.co.uk/2021/04/28/ed-balls-day-2011/

Turn off self-view.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-viewing-subconsciously-rewarding.html

Turn off self-view.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-viewing-subconsciously-rewarding.html

First assume the birb is spherical.
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/42​​​​​​​

"Contemporary aesthetic theory posited that the sublime was expressed by the awe inspired by rugged mountains, dark forests, and churning waves, while the beautiful was expressed by the comfort and repose of smooth lawns, fresh young flowers, and graceful saplings. Into this picture stepped the picturesque, considered to be a mix of the two: the sweetness of the beautiful, cut with some of the sublime’s majestic terror."
https://daily.jstor.org/the-claude-glass-revolutionized-the-way-people-saw-landscapes/

"They tested, and you really do need the human blood; rat blood alone wasn’t nearly as good."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/mouse-embryos-grow-for-days-in-culture-but-the-requirements-are-a-bit-nuts/

Life of a diplomat.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/a-maya-ambassadors-grave-reveals-his-surprisingly-difficult-life/

Here’s a great* summary of what we know and don’t know about the polar vortex, climate change, and regional cold weather outbreaks.
*except for the goofy units. I mean, it’s 2021.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex

"this is a story that is 20 years in the making of the underlying technology"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/programmable-optical-quantum-computer-arrives-late-steals-the-show/

“We would use technology alongside established traditional approaches to drying timber. You start with a huge, sopping-wet liability and you turn it into a plank of wood."
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2021/02/21/adamson-low-treasure-out-of-the-bog/

Now that spring is approaching it’s a good time to revisit these very special places: Coastal oakscapes.
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/coastal-oakscapes/

Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life with JAX
https://avinayak.github.io/algorithms/pro

"I think a problem is that modern newspapers cater to an audience that’s expected to be very plugged in to the cultural and political topic of the day, or at least fake it."
https://mleverything.substack.com/p/when-did-writing-in-major-newspapers

"people who engaged in more persuasive bullshitting were not only more receptive to pseudo-profound bullshit but were also more over-confident in their own intellectual ability"
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/03/05/it-turns-out-you-can-bullshit-a-bullshitter-after-all/

"They recorded the light output of 254 independent pixels, which together produced random bits at a rate of around 250 terabits per second"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00562-6

"TB killed or seriously sickened one-fifth of those with two copies of the variant, few of whom had offspring who survived after the end of the Bronze Age, 2000 years ago. As a result, natural selection acted strongly and quickly to weed out the deadly gene variant to low levels"
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/how-tuberculosis-reshaped-our-immune-systems

The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt
https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053

"Climate change deniers, even when they have some scientific background, tend not to be climate scientists (hence, they should have less authority than they claim); they do not present their views in ways that can be publicly criticized (such as at scientific conferences); they do not meaningfully respond to criticisms; and they have not contributed to empirical adequacy by generating successful novel explanations, predictions, or manipulations. The last condition—a commitment to empirical adequacy—is necessary for doing science."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hast.1227

Most people don’t know when to end a conversation.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/when-should-you-end-conversation-probably-sooner-you-think

Electric cars result in less waste over all than those powered by fossil fuels.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/01/fossil-fuel-cars-make-hundreds-of-times-more-waste-than-electric-cars

Score for a Hole in the Ground
https://vimeo.com/39175641

So much of software development depends on a morass of nested dependencies and managing all of that is a real pain. So, many developers don’t bother. That provides a way to exploit the lazy, and inject your own code into widely distributed projects.
https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610

Let the dumbing down continue said no one but Americans.
Juliet did not say “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore [is he] Romeo.” The Beatles did not sing “[They] Want[ed] to Hold [Someone’s] Hand.”
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/stop-defacing-quotes-with-brackets.html

"this kind of requests constitutes about 20% of all requests we get in EQSIN for media"
"We could not find the image anywhere in the app, confirming our theory that it fetches the image but does not display it."
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

The Arctic Ocean may have gone fresh in ice age times https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/the-arctic-ocean-may-have-gone-fresh-in-ice-age-times/

This is wonderful! Unlikely avian taxonomies.
https://zoesadokierski.com/exhibitions/unlikely-avian-taxonomies

At first I was WTF but now I’m 🤔
https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html

A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics — 7 part series

"the income of someone’s parents is the factor that correlates most to entrepreneurship" But if you work hard you’ll succeed.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/parents-income-not-smarts-key-to-entrepreneurship-study-657058

The tapestry of forums and newsgroups that made up the early internet flourished for a while, but in the 2000s an invasive species arrived: the platforms. The platforms made it so easy to create, share, distribute and discover that everyone joined them, smushing everything together into common, user-friendly formats without the local context or nuance of the smaller groups.
https://alexdanco.com/2020/10/08/making-is-show-business-now/

There is a magic in information graphics.
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/dataviz/

"Now, the fake song is, in fact, a real song. It literally willed itself into existence."
https://boingboing.net/2021/01/24/the-bizarre-internet-mystery-of-an-avril-lavigne-song-that-doesnt-exist.html

Research on the southwest coast of British Columbia shows that herons are deliberately seeking out nesting pairs of eagles—and building right next to them.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/01/great-blue-herons-bald-eagle-prey-predator/617806/

"To replicate: In unity hit ctrl-alt-l, place keyboard on chair. Sit on keyboard."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1463112

New blue paint is pricey.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-blue-pigment-discovered-200-years-finally-sale-180976769/

“There is a causal link between how primates are depicted and whether they survive as wild animals, or [whether] people do terrible things and try to make them pets.”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/no-more-cuddly-selfies-our-ape-cousins-top-conservation-body-warns-scientists

"It really shows how conditioned an entire community can be when they find the statement “given a list x, the first item in x is x[1], the second item in x is x[2]” to be unnatural."
https://hisham.hm/2021/01/18/again-on-0-based-vs-1-based-indexing/

“When I hear people talk about climate change, I often hear them ask, ‘When is it going to happen?’” the California-based photographer Mette Lampcov tells us. “Well, it’s here. We’re living it. We’d better start looking it straight in the eyes.”
http://www.mettelampcov.com/water-to-dust
https://www.featureshoot.com/2021/01/climate-change-drought-and-water-contamination-the-untold-story-of-californias-san-joaquin-valley/

"gravitational waves alter the steady pattern of light coming from pulsars, tugging or squeezing the relative distances that these rays travel through space."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210111125614.htm

“Pods,” personal online data stores, are a key technical ingredient to achieve that goal. The idea is that each person could control his or her own data — websites visited, credit card purchases, workout routines, music streamed — in an individual data safe, typically a sliver of server space.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/technology/tim-berners-lee-privacy-internet.html

“We’re going to get as much out of [oil and gas] for as long as we can,” he said.
“That’s an extremely frightening thing for you to say,” I said.
“It doesn’t mean every drop,” he said, failing to reassure me.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html

"peaking out loud …​ allows the retrieval of our thoughts in full, using rhythm and intonation that emphasise their pragmatic and argumentative meaning, and encourages the creation of developed, complex ideas."
https://psyche.co/ideas/talking-out-loud-to-yourself-is-a-technology-for-thinking

Some tidbits of information theory that I encountered recently …​

You don’t have privacy with respect to folks viewing you from space. Here’s a new 50 cm* synthetic aperture radar system that can look into buildings. What could go wrong?
* Don’t worry, there’s still room to increase resolution. https://futurism.com/new-satellite-buildings-day-night

"Surveying technical literature on digital humans is a stomach-churning tour of whiteness. Journal articles on “skin rendering” often feature a single image of a computer-generated white person as empirical proof that the algorithm can depict “humans.”"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-racist-legacy-of-computer-generated-humans/

"the work is no different to other quantum-advantage experiments: take a problem that is mostly useless but happens to map exactly to the architecture of your computer. Naturally, the computer can solve it."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/un-computable-quantum-maze-computed-by-quantum-maze-computer/

"It is uncanny to follow my own steps, even though they do not divulge any romantic affair, secret meetings, or embarrassing health issues."
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/

Lab-grown meat is coming
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time

Cleaning up pollution is complex and expensive (yet we typically don’t require the polluters to pay for it).
https://jalopnik.com/a-chain-just-cut-through-a-capsized-cargo-ship-filled-w-1845784581

Everything you never wanted to know about the Dr Who theme
https://www.dwtheme.com/

So much about this discussion of carbon offsets is excellent. tl;dr Only stopping emissions from fossil fuels will work. Meanwhile, "what you should brag about is not that you’re carbon neutral. You should say, ‘I donated $100 to something I believe in.’"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/want-to-offset-your-carbon-footprint-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Australian police use secret machine learning to predict which youth to target.
https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/23/victoria-police-refuses-to-reveal-how-many-young-people-tracked-using-secretive-data-tool +web Even good machine learning tools suck and cause harm in the real world.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/18/1012234/training-machine-learning-broken-real-world-heath-nlp-computer-vision/

Black Ice
https://bikemaps.org/blog/post/black-ice

From 2015: Artificial chemotaxis.
https://news.stanford.edu/2015/03/11/dancing-droplets-prakash-031115/

Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable
https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Math/Mil

"Already, about one-third of the world’s population experiences conditions that create heat stress" and climate change is making this worse every day.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/heat-killing-more-people-ever-scientists-are-looking-ways-lower-risk

Study finds more evidence that "adults exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution are more likely to experience mental disorders"
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/study-supports-link-between-traffic-related-air-pollution-and-mental-disorders

“This is what 2050 will look like”
Extreme events today show us the future.
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/11/28/king-tides-of-the-future-could-be-moments-of-terror.html

Dear Frog, This Water Is Now Boiling
The day that Stallman and Doctorow have been warning us about has arrived this week. It’s been a slow and gradual process, but we are finally here. You will receive no further alerts.
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

"when we analyze the results of an experiment, our mental focus on a specific hypothesis can prevent us from exploring other aspects of the data, effectively blinding us to new ideas"
This is a wonderful experiment. Look at the graph of the data that students (subjects of the experiment) were asked to analyse for specific hypotheses. https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-02133-w

"Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems."
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-mental-illness-int-idUSKBN27P35N

Deprecating scp
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/835962/ae41b27bc20699ad/

I don’t know much about UPv6 so maybe this wasn’t the best essay to read first.
IPv6 Is a Total Nightmare — This is Why
https://teknikaldomain.me/post/ipv6-is-a-total-nightmare/

Burning iron. "The round-trip energy cycle efficiency of this system is dependent on the processes used to put the energy into the iron in the regeneration process. High-efficiency electrolysis of iron oxide can store as much as 80 percent of your input energy in the iron fuel"
https://newatlas.com/energy/bavarian-brewery-carbon-free-renewable-iron-fuel/

The ancient genomes suggest that dogs all share a common ancestor, which they don’t share with modern wolves.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/ancient-dna-sheds-light-on-our-prehistory-with-dogs/

Advocates say these carefully designed “minipublics” can break political stalemates by bringing together citizens to hear evidence and deliberate. They point to evidence of high-quality policy created by fresh and diverse perspectives.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/jury-duty-global-warming-citizen-groups-help-solve-puzzle-climate-action

awk: BEGIN { …​
https://jemma.dev/blog/awk-part-1

Here, we present a simple guide for the scientific use of colour. We show how scientifically derived colour maps report true data variations, reduce complexity, and are accessible for people with colour-vision deficiencies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19160-7

"a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009)."
https://www.cameronsworld.net/

If forecasters can’t predict the weather beyond a couple of weeks how can climate models predict the climate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5fwYtU7Rhg
Text at http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-can-climate-be-predictable-if.html

http://economixcomix.com/home/stockmarket/

No Memory is Ever Alone http://www.catherinepanebianco.com/#/no-memory-is-ever-alone-1/

"more work is required to construct a fully-fledged relativistic MOND theory capable of addressing cosmology"
"There is now a very real prospect of obtaining a single theory that works across all astronomical scales"
https://tritonstation.com/2020/10/23/big-trouble-in-a-deep-void/amp/

Forensic earthquakeology.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/besides-the-big-one-closer-faults-could-also-shake-portland/

Not superluminal signalling.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particles-can-break-the-speed-of-light-20201020/

"You don’t convince someone who has already rejected thousands of years of scientific evidence by showing them more evidence.""
https://www.newsweek.com/flat-earth-science-denial-america-1421936

They’re made out of meat.
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

All about *.
https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/

"Current approaches to improving digital well-being also promote tech solutionism, or the presumption that technology can fix social, cultural, and structural problems. At their core, these approaches lack empirical evidence to support them."
https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Healthy-Tech-Myths-DataSociety-20201007.pdf

Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining
https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-mining/

Do we use the real world as an external memory?
"people should greatly over-estimate their understanding of how bicycles work because bicycle parts are visible and they seem to be simple, mechanical devices."
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~rlawson/cycleweb.html

Another "draw a bicycle from memory" exercise. This time, the bikes have been made real
https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on-peoples-attempts-to-draw-them-from-memory/

"the grapefruit, as Bailey would show, is actually one of the most destructive foes of modern medicine in the entire food world."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grapefruit-history-and-drug-interactions

Transparent wood.
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/01/transparent-wood-could-be-window-future

"NbO2’s happens at a worrying 800 °C. That temperature is only occurring in a nanometers thin layer, but scaled up to millions of devices, and it could be a problem."
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/memristor-first-single-device-to-act-like-a-neuron

USB-C Was Supposed to Simplify Our Lives. Instead, It’s a Total Mess.
https://debugger.medium.com/usb-c-was-supposed-to-simplify-our-lives-instead-its-a-total-mess-626bb2ea3688

Any available source of information about people will be abused.
"Police forces across Ontario engaged in broad, illegal searches of a now-defunct COVID-19 database."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-police-database-1.5745481

Car Seats as Contraception
"this effect is limited to third child births, is concentrated in households with access to a car, and is larger when a male is present (when both front seats are likely to be occupied)."
https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

"It turns out that if you have a low density of cars on the roads, selfish drivers lead to more efficient traffic. But that’s only at low densities, and it’s just looking at efficiency. It’s more dangerous as well."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-scientist-beats-traffic-jams-through-adaptation-20200928/

"Science has been around for centuries trying to debunk most religious beliefs – and yet religion still plays a major role in Western society. If entire education systems teaching millions of people about science haven’t worked, why do you think adding a small fact check disclaimer below a YouTube video would?" https://julian.digital/2020/09/25/is-this-real-life/

This Programming Language Will Surprise You!
https://tabloid.vercel.app/

Introduction to Spinors
http://www.weylmann.com/spinor.pdf

"Given the difficulty that we have found for small neural networks to learn the Game of Life, which can be expressed with relatively simple symbolic rules, I would expect that most sophisticated symbol manipulation would be even more difficult for neural networks to learn
https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/09/16/deep-learning-game-of-life/

Venus is trying to kill you. It’s dense and impenetrable – there could be a whole civilisation a mile away, and you’d never know.
Contrast with Mars …​
Which is empty (at least in the imagination). Tabula rasa. It’s dangerous, sure, but in a character-building, life-at-the-frontier kind of way. It’s there, waiting for Will to be imposed on it.
http://interconnected.org/home/2020/09/23/venus

Modelling the future of Earth’s climate
Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change, Syukuro Manabe and Anthony J. Broccoli
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.4571

The Boycott Effect — settling occurs more quickly in a fluid if the vessel is tilted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zjixDxTEN8
http://www-math.mit.edu/~bush/The_Stratified_Boycott_Effect.pdf

Juno at Jupiter
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4577

"A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that massive volcanism sent great waves of carbon into the oceans over thousands of years — but that nature did not come close to matching what humans are doing today."+ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914172931.htm

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-math-fans-a-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-number-42/

"They showed the picture in Paris, and my son said, ‘You need to see the picture.’ I was ill to do that. Ill. And then they start to show the picture, and step by step, I was so happy because it was a shitty picture. I realized, ‘Dune’, nobody can do it. It’s a legend.”"
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/jodorowsky-reviews-villeneuve-dune-trailer-predictable-1234586462/

Are all those colours really necessary?
https://www.peterstefek.me/differentiable-dithering.html

This is a wonderful story about 'hacking' Tony Abbott’s passport number and then getting everyone on board to fix things.
https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

PDFs are a pain if you want to extract the text they contain
https://filingdb.com/b/pdf-text-extraction

"From a coder’s perspective, (La)TeX is a big mess, there is incredible dirt under the carpet, and as such, the development is driven by a few folks which are overworked."
From 2016. Has anything changed?
https://umij.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/the-sad-state-of-pdf-accessibility-of-latex-documents/

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used a numerical experiment to determine the limits of matt structural color—a phenomenon which is responsible for some of the most intense colors in nature—and found that it extends only as far as blue and green in the visible spectrum.
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-blues-greens-brightest-colous-nature.html

Classed as a light quadricycle, the Ami is, an “urban mobility object”. All-electric, 2.4 m long and 1.4 m wide, with a top speed of 45 km/h and a range of 75 km, it can be driven in France without a full licence by anyone aged 14 or over.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/ami-the-tiny-cube-on-wheels-that-french-14-year-olds-can-drive

Why online voting is harder than online banking
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/why-online-voting-is-harder-than-online-banking/

Who makes money off the Tour de France and how do they do it?
https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-the-tour-de-france/

"My favourite trick to illustrate the notion of consciousness as a process is to replace the word ‘consciousness’ with ‘evolution’ – and see if the question still makes sense. For example, the question What is consciousness for? becomes What is evolution for?"
https://aeon.co/essays/consciousness-is-not-a-thing-but-a-process-of-inferencea

"the more steps you get away from the primary source the more corrupted everything gets. The article is good. The press release is bad. The tweet about the press release is worse. The tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release are terrible."
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/please-read-the-paper-before-you-comment/

Data Ethics
http://ethics.fast.ai/syllabus/

How to Write Good
https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lol2.10165

Speakeasys make a comeback.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/11/900895704/secret-gyms-and-the-economics-of-prohibition?s=09

Practical Data Ethics http://ethics.fast.ai/

Lighter, more energy dense batteries for electric flight.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/with-ultralight-lithiumsulfur-batteries-electric-airplanes-could-finally-take-off

"security researchers say they have proven that the series of audible, metallic clicks made as a key penetrates a lock can now be deciphered by signal processing software to reveal the precise shape of the sequence of ridges on the key’s shaft."
https://cacm.acm.org/news/246744-picking-locks-with-audio-technology/fulltext

"On Facebook, health-misinformation 'superspreaders' rack up billions of views"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facebook/on-facebook-health-misinformation-superspreaders-rack-up-billions-of-views-report-idUSKCN25F1M4

What else could possibly happen in 2020?
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/08/18/Factory-malfunction-causes-chocolate-rain-in-Switzerland/3181597770079/

How many pieces can a puzzle have?
https://gottwurfelt.com/2020/08/17/how-many-pieces-can-a-puzzle-have/

Humanly traversable wormholes.
"the time it takes to travel between the two mouths on the outside"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618

The caption on the image of young Sameer is great
"Dunedin boy Sameer Anwar, who stuck a piece of Lego up his nose two years ago." https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/17/lego-piece-falls-out-of-boys-nose-after-2-years

"Our results suggest that artificial eyespots were successful in deterring ambush predators (lions and leopards) from attacking cattle on which they were painted during the study period"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01156-0
image::eyespots.jpg[]

Triangular Fraud
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU

If the archaeologists are right, that means people were making a living high in the mountains of north-central Mexico well before most people in the field thought North America was inhabited by humans.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/people-may-have-lived-in-north-america-by-30000-years-ago/

"He eventually mastered an entirely new digit system (where ⌊ stood for 2, ⌈ for 8, etc.); determined to keep working, he had his computer rigged to present the new numerals onscreen."
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/mysterious-case-man-who-can-read-letters-not-numbers-exposes-complex-roots

How to split a big piece of stone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBMcMGBhUVk

The hidden side of Pluto
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-020-02082-1/index.html

The machinery of photosynthesis "evolved not for maximum efficiency but rather for an optimally smooth and reliable output".
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/

Structural colour.
"we find that the metallic blue appearance of the fruits is produced by globular lipid inclusions arranged in a disordered multilayer structure."
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30995-7

"Recent human activity, including agriculture, has had a greater impact on North America’s plants and animals than even the glaciers that retreated more than 10,000 years ago." +_ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/humans-have-altered-north-america-s-ecosystems-more-melting-glaciers

"without underlying long-term, system-wide decarbonization of economies, even massive shifts in behaviour only lead to modest reductions in the rate of warming"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/covid-19-wont-impact-climate-much-but-economic-recovery-could/

Going soft.
(2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqP3IpEqkk4