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3 weeks ago

How a self-taught biologist transformed nature writing - and inspired Darwin

The first person to identify harvest mice ( Micromys minutus), Gilbert White was an eighteenth-century English curate and naturalist who has been called the 'father of ecology'. Yet records from his student days show that he was not so much a quiet country gentleman as a lad about town, losing money at cards and buying fancy waistcoats. In her grandly illustrated book A Year with Gilbert White, historian Jenny Uglow looks between these extremes to investigate who White really was.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Tiny fireball that crashed into Georgia home is 4.56bn-year-old meteorite, say experts

A meteorite that crashed in Atlanta was found to be 4.56 billion years old, predating Earth.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Daniel Gomez, botanist: When we give flowers, we are giving sexual organs'

We know much more about plants than nature in general, but like all other areas, there are so many more unknowns than knowns.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Pulitzer Prize winner Jason Roberts: One of the great challenges of today's world is the appeal of simplism'

True science intertwines advancements with life-and-death consequences, highlighting a historical race for knowledge amidst perilous explorations and colonial undertones.
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fromFortune
2 months ago
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You can buy a 54-pound Martian rock for upwards of $2 million in an auction also featuring a juvenile dinosaur that's 11 feet long

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2 months ago
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You can buy a 54-pound Martian rock for upwards of $2 million in an auction also featuring a juvenile dinosaur that's 11 feet long

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fromFuturism
2 months ago

A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

A 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil was discovered beneath a museum's parking lot in Denver during geothermal drilling.
fromColossal
2 months ago

The 16th-Century Artist Who Created the First Compendium of Insect Drawings

Joris Hoefnagel created The Four Elements, a multi-volume collection with over 300 watercolor renderings showcasing insects and other natural specimens with remarkable detail and accuracy.
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fromGothamist
2 months ago

See a rare dinosaur or a chunk of Mars during Sotheby's 'Geek Week'

The sale features a six-foot-tall Ceratosaurus fossil, one of only four known specimens, expected to sell for between 4 and 6 million dollars.
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fromianVisits
4 months ago

Natural History Museum film will compress 4-billion-years of earth's history into one hour

Sir David Attenborough's new film compresses 4 billion years of Earth's history into a one-hour experience at the Natural History Museum.
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