You would be excused for considering it a masterpiece of trolling. Exposed to it, people usually considered to be champions of rational thought became bags…
Continue reading Is a biosphere worth living?
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Since five hundred million years, something is burrowing on the ocean floor. We see its unique traces: two-dimensional grids of burrows, tracing an hexagonal pattern.…
3 CommentsIt’s the end of XIX century. A man, far away from home, looks in his microscope. He’s looking at a drop of salty water, taken…
Continue reading Salinella, or the last mythological animal
2 CommentsA few months ago I was asking myself: why, among all terrestrial Arthropoda, insects came out as the obvious exceptional winners? That is, why did…
Continue reading Why did they win? II. Learning to fly
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