Dan Falk

2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Dan Falk

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Elon Musk once joked: “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” Musk is, in fact, deadly serious about colonizing the Red Planet. Part of his motivation is the idea of having a “back-up” planet in case some future catastrophe renders the Earth uninhabitable. Musk has suggested that a million people may be calling Mars home by 2050 — and he’s hardly alone in his enthusiasm.

2 weeks ago | smithsonianmag.com | Dan Falk

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other states today A hundred years ago this summer, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, was thrust into the international spotlight as one of the most famous legal confrontations of the 20th century got underway.

3 weeks ago | techtelegraph.co.uk | Dan Falk

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3 weeks ago | undark.org | Dan Falk

Elon Musk once joked: “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” Musk is, in fact, deadly serious about colonizing the Red Planet. Part of his motivation is the idea of having a “back up” planet in case some future catastrophe renders the Earth uninhabitable. Musk has suggested that a million people may be calling Mars home by 2050 — and he’s hardly alone in his enthusiasm.

1 month ago | pourlascience.fr | Dan Falk

Comment fonctionne l’esprit ? C’est la grande affaire d’Anil Seth, de l’université du Sussex, en Angleterre. Les neurones n’ont que peu de secrets pour lui, mais il sait que l’énigme de la conscience déborde le champ des neurosciences pour s’étendre à d’autres branches de la science, et même à la philosophie.