Don’t forget that you might know how to design a presentation that pleases for aesthetic reasons, but when you design a presentation, you must also consider how people learn.

Kids in the Hall: These Are The Daves I Know

Difficult conversations between HAL, and another Dave.

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For the first time, scientists at Exeter University have captured on film the process by which plants alert each other to possible dangers.

When a plant is under attack it releases a gas which warns neighbouring plants to protect themselves.

In a new BBC Two series, Professor Iain Stewart explains how the Earth’s development was driven by plants and how they have adapted for survival.

In this article, we explore and redefine our notion of nature. We will argue that our current common view on ‘nature’ needs reconsideration. The notions of nature and culture seem to be trading places. Nature, in the sense of trees, plants, animals, atoms, or climate, is getting increasingly controlled and governed by man. It has turned into a cultural category. At the same time, products of culture, which we used to be in control of man, tend to outgrow us and become autonomous. The ‘natural powers’ seem to shift to another field. Nature changes along with us. We propose the term ‘next nature’ for this culturally emerged nature. Next nature is real nature, no representation, or a simulation of some long-lost phenomenon.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s statement on Evolution and Intelligent Design.

Mammals - we were just lurking in the corners, waiting for our moment.