Virus: The Beauty of the Beast
an interactive documentary on the mathematical majesty of viruses
From Explorable Explanations
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
Illustrations of supposed physiognomic affinities between humans and animals.
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Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.
From The Public Domain Review
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras is an open/citizen science activist and researcher with a background in biology and bioinformatics. He worked as a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute and Inserm. In 2011, he founded openSNP. He was awarded a PhD in Bioinformatics in 2018. In 2017 he joined the…
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How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?
Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering
To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
Marvin Minsky and The Ultimate TinkerToy
An essay on the legacy of Marvin Minsky with programmable interactive simulations
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Making sense of COVID19 through simulations
From Explorable Explanations
Corona Simulator
why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
From Explorable Explanations
Biological Neural Networks
a (very technical) interactive guide to modeling neurons
From Explorable Explanations
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