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Bookmark Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic
A small shark spots its prey—a meaty, seemingly defenseless octopus. The shark ambushes, and then, in one of the most astonishing sequences in the series Blue Planet II, the octopus escapes.…

October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
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all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began

December 1 2019, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine
Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind and started to focus on a new strategy. Before, they would…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Princeton researchers discover why AI become racist and sexist | Ars Technica
Ever since Microsoft's chatbot Tay started spouting racist commentary after 24 hours of interacting with humans on Twitter, it has been obvious that our AI creations can fall prey to human…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments
Bookmark The Silicon Valley billionaires who want to live forever - The i…
Throughout history, the world’s greatest minds have been obsessed with immortality. The scientists and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley are no exception “I’ve already lowered my biological age and upgraded my IQ,”…

September 28 2016, 11:28am | Comments
Bookmark Mammoth Tusk Hunters
One last chance. That’s all the Siberian hunter wants. For five months Karl Gorokhov has tracked his ancient prey across a desolate island in the East Siberian Sea, slogging 18 hours…

May 19 2015, 4:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Reinvention without End: Roland Barthes | Mute
Peter Suchin reappraises the prismatic works of Roland Barthes – an author who defied his own pronouncement of the designation’s demise. From the Marxist of Mythologies to the ‘scientist’ of S/Z,…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments
Bookmark A world without mosquitoes
So what would happen if there were none? Would anyone or anything miss them? Nature put this question to scientists who explore aspects of mosquito biology and ecology, and unearthed some…

July 27 2010, 8:17am | Comments
Bookmark Spiders Devour Ants Front-End First
A spider that only eats ants is choosy about which body parts of its prey it devours based on their nutritional value. These new findings are the first to demonstrate that…

May 14 2010, 3:35am | Comments

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