Today it’s the New Scientist files. I tend to tear out articles at random (no room to keep the whole magazines!), sometimes making notes to myself, other times simply sparked by the headline.
Here are a few.
The Pacific hagfish can absorb nutrients through its skin.
“Smell of death ‘in air from car’.” Taking air samples to prove a body has been transported.
“Brain signals harnessed to move robot arm.”
“Neanderthals may have drifted gently into oblivion.” This one fascinates me because I’m interested in survival; what makes us carry on? How does a community decide when it’s done, when it’s over?
How are you refreshing the wells today?
It was a review I read. It mentioned “broken mirrors” and I started immediately to think at the cracks that appear on a perfect surface, a broken reflection, the pieces that make a human or a certain object hole, the perfect image that those pieces form when they are together and the accidental or deliberate impacts that can shatter the entire image and reveal the little pieces.
I love that, Mihai! Wonderful imagery, and very true.