Ask Emily: The Favorites Episode
RAINDROPS ON ROSES AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS: these are a few of Emily's favorite things! NEW BLOG! http://isnotadinosaur.tumblr.com Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thebrainscoop/ Facebook:...
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Hey everybody! Welcome to The Brain Scoop. Today I'm gonna answer some questions about what my favorite things are, because in Ask Emily episodes you ask me a lot of what my favorites are and I didn't know. But now I do. When I visited the paleobotanical collection, the collection's manager, Ian Glasspool, showed me a vial of ash, which happened to be the first known evidence of a fire ever burning on the planet— meaning that some 419 million years ago, when photosynthetic bacteria was forming into a kind of fungus, it caught on fire and we have the physical evidence of that event happening. The idea that we can trace such a significant event back to the physical evidence of its happening opened up my mind to the possibility that we can potent...
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Hey everybody! Welcome to The Brain Scoop. Today I'm gonna answer some questions about what my favorite things are, because in Ask Emily episodes you ask me a lot of what my favorites are and I didn't know. But now I do. When I visited the paleobotanical collection, the collection's manager, Ian Glasspool, showed me a vial of ash, which happened to be the first known evidence of a fire ever burning on the planet— meaning that some 419 million years ago, when photosynthetic bacteria was forming into a kind of fungus, it caught on fire and we have the physical evidence of that event happening. The idea that we can trace such a significant event back to the physical evidence of its happening opened up my mind to the possibility that we can potent...
