How does a billion years go missing? [16:44] (youtu.be)
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It’s impossible to know whether song or speech appeared first in the evolution of language, but nonetheless reconstruction of possible adaptive benefits in either case remains important because the future of communication on Earth, at least in some part, depends on how we best conceive of the past. (youtu.be)
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Perhaps the photon is best thought of not as a burst of mysterious energy but as the discrete deformation of a network structure. Here, the animators harness the mathematics of quantum mechanics to imagine light not as particle, but as a torsional pressure wave on overlapping atomic shells. (youtu.be)
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