Face recognition feels like a single ability that everybody has, working roughly the same way in everybody.
That impression is wrong in the way most impressions about internal experience are…
Maya Linton
There is a fact about the past that is difficult to hold onto because it contradicts something we do daily without thinking.
For most of human history, almost nobody had…
There is a constraint that shapes plant biology more than almost anything else, and it is easy to overlook because it is so obvious.
Plants cannot move. Not slightly limited…
There is a fact almost everybody knows and almost nobody can explain, which makes it a useful place to start.
The Moon presents the same face to Earth continuously. The…
There is a common assumption that a hot place is hot and a cold place is cold, and that a location is one or the other.
Deserts break that assumption…
There is a widely held picture of how concrete works, and almost every part of it is inverted.
The picture is that wet concrete is a thick paste which dries…