Photographer Alan McFadyen estimates that it took him some 4,200 hours and 720,000 exposures before finally capturing this perfect photo of a kingfisher’s riveting dive. Sometimes, patience pays off:
📸: Alan McFadyen
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science & this year's theme is "Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19".
Less than 30% of STEM researchers are women & only 3% of Nobel laureates in Science are women.
Let's bridge this gap.
#WomenInScience
By 2070, humanity will learn to thrive in positive ecological relationships with the species around us. This author makes a case for what a hopeful future looks like https://t.co/lkUDp60nIz
Most read of 2020: Air conditioning represents one of the most difficult technological problems to fix—and one of the greatest missed opportunities in the fight against climate change. https://t.co/lhs4M7a4CI
Human cities and computer motherboards look suspiciously similar. Both are platforms that enable computation, but do so at different layers of abstraction.