Does this mean urchins lose their vestigial brains when they mature? That feels incredibly backward but also incredibly deep.

Were there larger extant snakes at the time anaconda evolved? Are we seeing a large-ish survivor? If not, maybe something to do with basal metabolic demand?

It's amazing how often convergence aims directly at radiation potential. A whole world of niches if only you can bring the ocean with you.

At least most of the masks have been picked up off the sidewalks...

One of my favorite pit stops on the Harvard campus. The realism is uncanny, and the rest of the museum is nothing to sneeze at, either.

If my inner life is a complicated version of what happens inside a spider, what happens when I squish the spider? Worse, what happens to me when a truck squishes me?

Maybe our fear of death—of eternal nothingness—fuels the urge to elevate the human mind and denigrate the others.

In the 80s Carl Sagan would’ve gone on the evening news to explain that, while it’s fun to imagine aliens, the real science is just as wondrous — that 3I/ATLAS tells us something profound about our place in the cosmos.

Instead we fight back against AI generated click bait... happy 2025, everyone.