What a tree can tell you
How to use a tree as a compass (and other tricks)
‘Schimmels dwingen ons te veranderen’ | Trouw
Merlin Sheldrake is gek van schimmels. Ze zetten wetenschappelijke dogma’s op de kop, veranderen onze relatie met de natuur.
Animal senses are superpowers
Review of An Immense World by Ed Yong — The Times (archived 10-6-2022)
Birds have four colour receptors, rather than three, giving them access to a vast array of colour combinations unknown to us. So do some humans. Almost 50,000 people in the UK are “tetrachromats”
Predators on the riverside mean trouble in paradise | Melissa Harrison | The Times
archived 7 May 2022 05:37:48 UTC
How the smell of rain reaches your nose | The Times
A raindrop pounding a porous surface traps tiny air bubbles at the point of contact. Those tiny bubbles are then catapulted upwards, ultimately bursting from the drop in a fizz of aerosols. And so the tiny droplets are sent flying into the air and blow away on a breeze that then reaches your nose with their heady scent.
archived 22 Apr 2022
Fragmenten van een en hetzelfde ijzige hemellichaam
Romeinse daglichtkometen waren onderdeel van 2.400 jaar durend spektakel
De Volkskrant 16-02-2022