Click Here to Read: The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory: Did the virus spring from nature or from human error? By Carolyn Kormann in the New Yorker on October 12, 2021.
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Why simplicity works
Click Here to Read: Why simplicity works: Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple? by Johnjoe McFadden on the Aeon website.
The 15 meter Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Image: NASA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
What If the Universe Had No Beginning?
Remembering Ndakasi, a beloved mountain gorilla
Click Here to Read: Remembering Ndakasi, a beloved mountain gorilla: Nat Geo photographer Brent Stirton reflects on the life of a famous orphaned mountain gorilla Story and Photographs by Stirton as told to Douglas Main on the National Geographic Website on October 8, 2021.
Mountain Gorilla (not Ndakasie) Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Berkeley inventor of blind adaptive technology wins MacArthur ‘genius’ prize
Click Here to Read: Berkeley inventor of blind adaptive technology wins MacArthur ‘genius’ prize: Joshua A. Miele won a prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship for his pragmatic inventions that help blind people navigate the physical and digital world on by Alix Wall on the Berkeleyside Website on September 29, 2021.
The jet stream is moving north. Here’s what that means for you
Click Here to Read: The jet stream is moving north. Here’s what that means for you: Weather could change dramatically, especially when it comes to rainfall. BY PHILIP KIEFER on the Popular Science website on September 22, 2021.
Greenland Ice Sheet. Image: Christine Zenino from Chicago, US Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Scientists Accidentally Discovered Hidden Galaxies At the Edge of Time
Click Here to Read: Scientists Accidentally Discovered Hidden Galaxies At the Edge of Time: The unexpected discovery suggests that one in five galaxies in the ancient universe may be concealed behind dust by Becky Ferreira on the Vice website on the September 23, 2021.
Caldwell 5, also known as IC 342, is a spiral galaxy located approximately 11 million light-years from Earth. Image: ESA/Hubble Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.