Fosse Dionne is a karst spring (a karst is an irregular limestone region with sinkholes, underground streams and caverns) that spews out an average of 311 liters of water per second, which is an unusually high discharge, although the speed with the that sprouts from the ground varies from season to season. The Celts considered … Read more
Albert Einstein published 248 studies in his lifetime. Charles Darwin, 119. Louis Pasteur. 172. Michael Faraday, 161. Sigmund Freud, 330. Let’s compare these numbers with the body of work of Peter Higgs , who had published only 25 studies at the age of 84, when he received the Nobel Prize for predicting the Higgs boson. … Read more
To successfully cooperate or compete with other people in everyday life, it is important to know what the other person thinks, feels, or wants. For a long time, it was assumed that people depended exclusively on a single strategy: mind reading . This means that people deduce the mental states of others solely on the … Read more
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer and mathematician born into a Protestant Lutheran family who lived in the city of Weil der Stadt, in Baden-Württemberg, in 1571. His father, always absent because he was a mercenary in the army, favored Kepler to become He will breed almost exclusively with his mother, a healer and herbalist. … Read more
The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons that form trillions of points of contact. Imaging a whole brain at cellular resolutions produces data in the range of several petabytes. Electron microscopy of the whole brain would amount to more than one exabyte of data . Understanding the brain in all its complexity requires knowledge … Read more