The Art of Lying with Data (and Words)
Deception isn’t always malice. Sometimes it’s just a structural trick. Or a phonetic illusion.
Today we are playing with three types. Statistics. Surveys. Sound.
Can you...
Rocket Lab Bites Off $8 Billion To Chase SpaceX
Rocket Lab is buying Iirdium. The price tag is eight billion dollars.
That’s not pocket change.
For a company mostly famous for firing off the small...
Yeast eats plastic
The Glue That Works
Biofilms. Sounds slimy, right?
It is. Essentially a gooey community of microbes. They glue themselves to surfaces. It’s a survival tactic. When...
Can Magic Mushrooms Fix Broken Brains?
Larissa Hope was 17. She’d just landed a role on Skins. The fame hit her hard, digging up trauma she’d buried for years.
Antidepressants did...
Sulfur in the Skies Could Turn Airplane Cabins Toxic
Blocking the sun to fight global warming sounds like a simple fix. Reflect particles into the sky, bounce light away, cool the planet down....
Ocean Satellite Sees Smoke
Space watches.
Wildfires don’t just burn the ground. They scream it up into the sky, plumes of ash drifting so far that they are visible...
Robin Sized, Foot Long Tails: Meet the Peacocks of the Cretaceous
Imagine a bird no bigger than your thumb. Roughly six inches. American robin territory. But attached to that tiny frame are two tail feathers...
The Rare Reverse View
Look up. Or, in this case, look down, up, and sideways all at once.
Kimiya Yui didn’t just snap a photo. He caught a moment...
Tomatoes and soy might actually quiet the noise of inflammation
It’s just a drink.
Or so you’d think. But researchers at Ohio State University think a specific mix of tomato juice and soy extracts is...
Deep-Sea Fish Have Tiny Light Prisms
Seventy-five percent of ocean creatures make their own light.
Not many know what happens next. The light hits these weird, needle-shaped crystals made of guanine....
