Courtesy of UC San Diego News The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail’s exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other. Researchers are [...]

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Courtesy of University of Alberta News By Brian Murphy The ability of mussels to cling to just about everything in their underwater world has yielded more important findings for a University of Alberta researcher. Chemical and materials engineering researcher Hongbo Zeng says academic freedom at the U of A and the university’s encouragement of innovation, sustainability and [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State News By Hannah Lane Laura Davis had dreamed of traveling to Africa for years. So in May 2012, she jumped at the chance to embark on a journey to South Africa and Mozambique offered through a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences natural resources embedded course. The trip was a life-changing experience. [...]

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This inspiring interpretation of Carl Sagan’s iconic “Pale Blue Dot” speech was created as a Sheridan College final thesis project by illustration major Adam Winnik. I have always thought of Carl Sagan’s writings as “scientific poetry” since they lack the cold touch that science is often cursed for having. I think Sagan’s words resonate more [...]

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This inspiring video imparts the story of a brilliant, resourceful 15 year old from Sierra Lione, West Africa, Kelvin Doe, who caught the attention of M.I.T. PhD student, David Sengeh, resulting in a wonderful growth opportunity for both young men. Tweet

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Courtesy of Emory University Art offers scientists a chance to see the systems they work on in a new light. Nicole Gerardo “Art offers scientists a chance to see the systems they work on in a new light,” says Emory biologist Nicole Gerardo. Her lab studies evolution by observing interactions between organisms such as aphids, [...]

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Courtesy of Florida International University In mathematics, it is called a sublime number. In religion, some would argue it is nearly holy. Western music is built around it and architecture pays homage to it. Even nature has an obsession with it. And on 12-12-12, the calendar will be spotlighting the number for the last time [...]

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By Cole Parnell : Graphic Designer Shift Into Green Energy Independence was a student ad campaign I created while enrolled at Santa Barbara City College. My professor Liz Russotti gave us the assignment with an objective of creating a full-scale ad campaign for a good cause. The assignment included print work, 2 social media sites, a [...]

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My life is my message. – Mahatma Gandhi   In this inspiring TEDx Talk, solutionary, Zoe Weil reminds us that our lives are our message.     Zoe Weil is the co-founder and President of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE). IHE works to create a humane, just, and sustainable world for people, animals, and [...]

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The manner in which people perceive their relationship with nature varies both by time and geographic location. In a temporal sense, the paradigm that a specific culture is asphyxiated with is most often a direct product of the socio-economic standards at that particular time. Shanghai wasn’t always skyrise hotels and mass produced everything – there [...]

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