Some divers went swimming with — and touched — a great white shark that's believed to be one of the biggest in the world. The encounter was caught on video. https://t.co/HnwYXRNKU9
‘The Second Kind of Impossible’ is a tale of a real-world scientific derring-do. Sharon Glotzer recounts theoretical physicist, Paul Steinhardt’s quest to find a natural quasicrystal. https://t.co/Kli0mpzSI0
Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his work on the structure of atoms. He described the atom as a small positively charged nucleus surrounded by waves of electrons. Here is a beautiful drawing of the structure of Bohr's Radium atom in 1922
Source: https://t.co/JcaTUA6nn6
Humans may be Darwinian malware:
https://t.co/1ccL8Kl0YX
But we are also the only species that can end suffering:
https://t.co/L19ANIuc5h
The human species will probably go extinct over the next millennium as we rewrite our source code and bootstrap our way to paradise.
#CRISPR
The brain neurotransmitter dopamine has a yin-yang personality, mediating both pleasure & pain. #BerkeleyResearch
Dopamine changes neural circuits & trains the brain – for better or worse – to pursue the pleasurable and avoid the unpleasurable. https://t.co/lxfYfuB1TL
Your brain is an incomprehensively complex miracle-machine that spins tiny electrical impulses into thought and consciousness. And yet here you are using it on Twitter.