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- 1Text 1 Microbes are tiny organisms in the soil, water, and air all around us. They thrive even in very harsh conditions. That's why Noah Fierer and colleagues were surprised when Medium · Craft and Structure
- 2Text 1 The idea that time moves in only one direction is instinctively understood, yet it puzzles physicists. According to the second law of thermodynamics, at a macroscopic levelMedium · Craft and Structure
- 3Text 1 In a study of the benefits of having free time, Marissa Sharif found that the reported sense of life satisfaction tended to plateau when participants had two hours of free Medium · Craft and Structure
- 4Text 1 The live music festival business is growing in event size and genre variety. With so many consumer options, organizers are finding ways to cement festival attendance as a sMedium · Craft and Structure
- 5Text 1 Stage lighting theorist Adolphe Appia was perhaps the first to argue that light must be considered alongside all the various elements of a stage to create a single, unifiedMedium · Craft and Structure
- 6Text 1 In 2021, a team led by Amir Siraj hypothesized that the Chicxulub impactor—the object that struck the Yucatán Peninsula sixty-six million years ago, precipitating the mass Medium · Craft and Structure
- 7Text 1 Philosopher G.E. Moore's most influential work entails the concept of common sense. He asserts that there are certain beliefs that all people, including philosophers, know Medium · Craft and Structure
- 8Text 1 Because literacy in Nahuatl script, the writing system of the Aztec Empire, was lost after Spain invaded central Mexico in the 1500s, it is unclear exactly how meaning was Medium · Craft and Structure
- 9Text 1 When companies in the same industry propose merging with one another, they often claim that the merger will benefit consumers by increasing efficiency and therefore lowerinMedium · Craft and Structure
- 10Text 1 Digital art, the use of digital technology to create or display images, isn't really art at all. It doesn't require as much skill as creating physical art. "Painting" with Medium · Craft and Structure
- 11Text 1 A tiny, unusual fossil in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber is of the extinct species Oculudentavis khaungraae. The O. khaungraae fossil consists of a rounded skull withMedium · Craft and Structure
- 12Text 1 Many studies in psychology have shown that people seek out information even when they know in advance that they have no immediate use for it and that they won't directly beMedium · Craft and Structure
- 13Text 1 Polar bears sustain themselves primarily by hunting seals on the Arctic sea ice, but rising ocean temperatures are causing the ice to diminish, raising concerns about polarMedium · Craft and Structure