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Thu Jun 20 14:25:52 GMT 2024
From /weblog/science
Not ‘if’, but ‘when’: city planners need to design for flooding. These examples show the way - https://www.zmescience.com[..]or-flooding-these-examples-show-the-way/ Rumble in the concrete jungle: what history teaches us about urban defense - https://www.zmescience.com/science/urban-defense-feature/ Garbology: How to spot patterns in people's waste - https://www.bbc.com[..]gy-how-to-spot-patterns-in-peoples-waste The decline of the city grid - https://www.economist.com[..]/2022/12/20/the-decline-of-the-city-grid What does a structural engineer do, according to experts - https://www.zmescience.com[..]e-post/what-does-structural-engineer-do/ Plumbing discovery reveals the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - https://arstechnica.com[..]s-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/ This Texas building has self-cooling walls - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]mselves-cold-so-you-dont-need-as-much-ac The Mayans mastered water management. What can we learn from them? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-we-learn-an-important-lesson-from-them/ How Toronto transformed a highway underpass into a vibrant public space - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]ay-underpass-into-a-vibrant-public-space 9 lesser known architectural wonders we lost to time - https://www.zmescience.com[..]n-architectural-wonders-we-lost-to-time/ Rechargeable concrete batteries could make buildings double as energy storage - https://www.zmescience.com[..]science/rechargeable-concrete-batteries/ How a lizard tail inspired a new building system that sheds parts to escape catastrophic collapse - https://www.zmescience.com[..]s-parts-to-escape-catastrophic-collapse/ How do you build tunnels and bridges underwater? A geotechnical engineer explains - https://www.zmescience.com[..]gineer-explains-the-construction-tricks/ Cities that converted empty office buildings into housing face these important questions - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]mpty-offices-housing-important-questions What the Middle East can tell us about surviving in a hotter, drier future - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]ll-us-about-surviving-in-a-hotter-future
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Tue Jun 18 14:02:02 GMT 2024
From /weblog/science/human
Scientists Discover Driving Force in the Evolution of Speech - https://www.newsweek.com[..]ntists-discover-evolution-speech-1854505 Oldest known words have survived 15,000 years. They include “mother”, “not” and “to spit” - https://www.zmescience.com[..]earch/discoveries/oldest-words-in-world/ What Baby Babble Can Teach Adults About Learning New Languages - https://nicenews.com[..]ach-adults-about-learning-new-languages/
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Tue Jun 18 06:13:15 GMT 2024
From /weblog/science/human
Not all noise is created equal. According to a new study, a background of white noise can enhance how well you hear other sounds. These findings could be used to design new and improved cochlear implants that provide better hearing. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]medicine/white-noise-enhance-sound-0423/ We can literally hear the sound of silence, scientists say - https://www.zmescience.com[..]edicine/mind-and-brain/sound-of-silence/ https://www.zmescience.com[..]ews-science/sound-of-silence-perception/ Can we reverse hearing loss? Yes we can, here is how it works - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ng-loss-yes-we-can-here-is-how-it-works/ From Science to Humanity’s Well-Being: 9 Extraordinary Examples of the Power of Music - https://nicenews.com[..]power-music-science-well-being-humanity/
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Sat Mar 23 06:32:23 GMT 2024
From /weblog/science
https://www.zmescience.com[..]cience/sign-language-evolution-21012020/ In the 19th century, a man living in present-day Liberia dreamed of the first script for his native Vai language. Today linguistic anthropologists are digging into the script’s evolution—and what the changes over the past two centuries reveal about human cognition and society. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-reveals-about-the-evolution-of-writing/ What the Vai Script Reveals About the Evolution of Writing - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-reveals-about-the-evolution-of-writing/ Syntax: the language form - https://towardsdatascience.com[..]om/syntax-the-language-form-612257c4aa5f
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Sat Jan 06 12:13:32 GMT 2024
From /weblog/science/animal/insect
Butterflies - https://www.wildcreatureshongkong.org[..]g.org/single-post/2018/07/10/Butterflies western monarch butterfly - https://www.westernmonarchcount.org/ Inside the Murky World of Butterfly Catchers - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]chers-collectors-indonesia-market-blumei Bufferfly act snake - http://www.zmescience.com/other/great-pics/mimicry-larvae-snakes How caterpillars gruesomely transform into butterflies - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/how-caterpillar-turn-butterfly-0534534/ Scientists identify where butterflies originated and which plants they relied on - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ginated-and-which-plants-they-relied-on/ Monarch butterfly white spots could be the secret to their continent-traversing superpower - https://www.zmescience.com[..]s-ecology/monarch-butterfly-white-spots/ The iconic North American butterfly's annual migration patterns are under threat from habitat loss and extreme weather, causing its devoted fans to research solutions and push for protection from the Endangered Species Act. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]e/monarch-butterfly-migration-endangered
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Sun Nov 12 11:45:38 GMT 2023
From /weblog/science/math
Interesting maths - http://list25.com[..]-math-principles-to-challenge-your-brain Napoleon was the Best General Ever, and the Math Proves it. - https://towardsdatascience.com[..]ever-and-the-math-proves-it-86efed303eeb https://list25.com[..]tal-math-tricks-that-will-blow-your-mind The mind-bendy weirdness of the number zero, explained - https://www.vox.com[..]/7/5/17500782/zero-number-math-explained 幾何世界新成員：scutoid - https://dq.yam.com/post.php?id=9695 莫比烏斯環 (Möbius strip或Möbius band) - https://dq.yam.com/post.php?id=10248 The most beautiful and important mathematical equations - https://www.zmescience.com[..]athematical-equations-beautiful-30112018 https://getpocket.com[..]/the-man-who-invented-modern-probability https://www.zmescience.com/science/types-of-triangles-feature/ Random - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ndomness-awarded-prestigious-math-prize/ calculus - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-calculus-and-how-to-get-the-hang-of-it/ secret-link-uncovered-between-pure-math-and-physics - https://getpocket.com[..]-uncovered-between-pure-math-and-physics What are algorithms, and why we’d best get used to them - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ature-post/what-are-algorithms-06042021/ Amazing egg - https://www.zmescience.com[..]news-science/why-egg-egg-shape-07092021/ The appeal of the paradox — mankind’s fascination with self-contradicting ideas - https://www.zmescience.com[..]scination-with-self-contradicting-ideas/ Abel Prize awarded to pioneering mathematician who built bridges between seemingly different fields of math - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ween-seemingly-different-fields-of-math/ Top 6 Statistical Concepts Every Data Scientist Should Know - https://medium.com[..]-data-scientist-should-know-121c923742e1 Conservation laws are very useful for physics. Basically, when a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change in time (and it is conserved), that is described by a conservation law. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-11c151253e-242734313 Accuracy errors typically come from systematic errors — as in, your measuring device/method isn’t good enough to detect whatever you aim to detect accurately. Precision errors are more often associated with noise, randomness, electronic errors, temperature, or other factors that affect measurements. Accuracy is the measurement of conformity, precision is the measure of statistical variability. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/science/precision-vs-accuracy-15082022/ A hundred years ago, a physicist tried to convince the world the universe is expanding — through math alone - https://www.zmescience.com[..]niverse-is-expanding-through-math-alone/ Statistics for Machine Learning A-Z - https://pub.towardsai.net[..]r-machine-learning-a-z-66a82fbf2622#3490 What is mathematics, an art or a science? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]what-is-mathematics-an-art-or-a-science/ How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole - https://www.bbc.com[..]mathematician-revealed-a-casino-loophole 16 Math memes that make you laugh and then make you think - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-make-you-laugh-and-then-make-you-think/ Does Math matter? Math matters both more and less than you think… - https://betterprogramming.pub[..]glecting-math-at-university-9d937655752b For tie aficionados, knots are an art form—and a surprisingly difficult math problem. - https://www.newyorker.com[..]o-invented-fifteen-hundred-necktie-knots
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Tue Oct 17 12:05:21 GMT 2023
From /weblog/science/earth
Plate tectonics: We figured out how to build an atomic bomb before we realized how mountains form - https://www.zmescience.com[..]b-before-we-realized-how-mountains-form/ Divergent boundaries: the tectonic forces that split the earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]h-dynamics/what-are-divergent-boundarie/ What is the Ring of Fire? Earth’s most volcanically active region - https://www.zmescience.com[..]y/planet-earth/what-is-the-ring-of-fire/ Convergent boundaries: the tectonic forces that shape the Earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]gy/earth-dynamics/convergent-boundaries/
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