Guest Thinkers — August 3, 2011 Video: A Mariachi Band Serenades a Beluga Whale Lindsay Beyerstein Copy a link to the article entitled Share Video: A Mariachi Band Serenades a Beluga Whale on Facebook Share Video: A Mariachi Band Serenades a Beluga Whale on Twitter (X) Share Video: A Mariachi Band Serenades a Beluga Whale on LinkedIn In my Room 101, I am this beluga: Watch.HT: Loren Beyerstein.
Thinking The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker Who — or what — really controls your mind?
The Past The largest accidental explosion of all time More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
High Culture 6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.
The Well Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why. ▸ 7 min — with Laurie Santos
Starts With A Bang The trick to instantly identifying JWST images If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.
Guest Thinkers Wednesday Whatzits: Orange alert at Cleveland, more Italian eruptions, Kilauea’s lava lakes and more! Lots of pieces of volcano news I’ve missed reporting over the last week, so I thought I could try to round them all up. Alaska: A 40-meter lava dome/flow was […]