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Jerram worked with scientists from the University of Bristol to create a series of glass sculptures of the planet's most notorious microbes. The result is a curious tension between beauty and the deadliness of the pathogens. This depiction of measu...
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The is a non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. This effect was first observed by German-American psychologist in 1929. In psychological experiments, first conducted on the island of (in which the primary lang...
I'd blame no adult for taking one look at my suggestion to reread books you were assigned in high school and then in turn suggesting a flying leap.