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dr. dolittle | September 5, 2013 Image of bonobos from www.freewallpaperspot.com
Photographer Graham McGeorge has captured remarkable images of bonobos, our closest living relative that share 98.7% of human DNA. The photos depict bonobos engaging in similar behaviors as humans, like the image above from another photographer of bonobos embracing each other. McGeorge also captured images of bonobos caring for their young as well as a bonobo who lost his hair with advancing age. Truly a must-see!
Click here to view images from this touching display.
esiegel | February 25, 2008Let me set the scene for you: I'm fresh off my Ph.D., teaching introductory physics at the University of Wisconsin. I'm trying to demonstrate how to turn potential energy into kinetic energy, and so I ask this simple question:
What is Energy?
And I get a stunned silence back from the room. One of those silences where 25 faces look back at you with eyes that say, "no, you're the one teaching us; you need to answer that one!"
And I confess, this is one of those questions that's looks like the easiest thing in the world, and yet there's no good answer for it. Put simply, energy is possibly…