Half-Asleep Chris's incredible LEGO railway
All aboard the Half-Asleep Express!
A new study suggests that whales and hippos had a common ancestor that was likely a land mammal
Hippos, whales, dolphins, and porpoises are all related but their skin evolution isn’t because of a shared ancestor…
The mysterious migrations of North Pacific loggerhead turtles
A marine biology unknown has been revealed.
Congrats to Vanessa E. Wyche: the first Black female director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Wyche is also a strong proponent of innovation and inclusion and STEM education.
The radioactive boar-pigs of Fukushima
Piggin’ hell!
A good explainer on how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines won't alter your DNA
And, no, you won’t turn into Spider-Man either.
A mathematician explains infinity in 5 minutes
Buzz Lightyear would have enjoyed this episode.
What if the world turned to gold?
Thank god Midas isn’t real and available.
A Sony flip phone from 2000 running Android 9
State of the art. Kinda.
Awareness of climate change disproportionately affecting Black people isn't enough
‘The Black climate agenda is about more than just representation.’
Craig Mod on code as therapy
There’s healing power in those curly brackets and semicolons.
The Levine Sequence
Numbers, numbers everywhere.
Police custody deaths and the fallacy of sickle cell causation
‘Blaming the deaths of 47 Black men on SCT as causative instead of associated is inaccurate and disrespectful.’
Marine ecology has dark fish
What lies beneath… who knows?
How to make low poly art with Python
Create awesome art with a few lines of Python code.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discussing 'The Disordered Cosmos' on NPR's Short Wave
Buy the book!
How data viz revolutionised problem solving
Along the corridor and up the stairs.
5 things to know about IBM’s tech investment in HBCUs
A worthwhile investment.
Dr. Dóminique Kemp: the first Black mathematics PhD graduate at Indiana University
The first Black person to achieve a PhD in Mathematics was Elbert Frank Cox from Cornell in 1925.
Find Your Bind is an app for readers to find books written by authors of colour
Naomi Adeniji and Wumi Obi are going places.