There is a question that sounds naive and turns out to open a real research problem: does everybody divide colours up the same way?
The physical answer is that the…
There is an assumption embedded in how nervous systems are usually described, and it comes from studying animals built like us.
The assumption is that a nervous system has a…
There is a class of behaviour that everybody performs, everybody recognises, nobody controls and nobody can explain, and yawning is the most conspicuous member of it.
It occurs in essentially…
There is a misunderstanding built into how these plants are usually described, and correcting it makes everything else about them clearer.
They are not predators in the sense of animals…
There is a category of historical evidence that is systematically misleading in a way nobody notices, and early photographs are the clearest case.
A photograph feels like direct evidence. It…
There is a reported experience so widespread that it barely gets questioned, and the questioning is where it becomes interesting.
The experience is that time accelerates. A childhood summer was…