Author: Shad Bauswell

Get back to nature, right in your own neighborhood.

A Lykoi kitten next to its normal-coated brother, who carries just one version of the Lykoi gene. It’s no accident that Lykois are bred with black cats. “If they have black as their base coats, they really have that werewolf look. Other base coats don’t look quite as striking,” he says. “An orange Lykoi cat […]

Stanley Kubrick and Johannes Vermeer try to see eye-to-eye.

Turbulence in the wing vortex produced by an airplaneNASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC) via Wikipedia In many of the times we encounter turbulence in our lives, it is preceded by a calmly worded warning from above. “Uh, folks, we may hit a few bumps,” a pilot announces over the plane’s PA system—or something to that […]

The Summer 2014 Quarterly tackles image and object.

Lord Martin Rees tells us about black holes and existential risks.

A “brainbow”: neurons labels with fluorescent tags, in this case, from a mouse.Stephen J. Smith via Wikipedia In his 2011 book, The Tell-Tale Brain, neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran says that some of the cells in your brain are of a special variety. He calls them the “neurons that built civilization,” but you might know them […]

Why U.S. dermatologists won’t base recommendations on skin color.

A controversial test for self-awareness is dividing the animal kingdom.