Our Sunday email this week has fun often offbeat links about how to make a mammal in nine easy steps (maybe a puppy like the one above?), how paper is made from trees, pulling water from desert air, a lucid dreaming app, Incan khipus used for counting, and more. Oh, and a meat eating terror bird twelve feet tall, speaking of dreams and maybe nightmares.
How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-to-make-a-mammal-in-nine-evolutionary-steps-180985289/
How is paper made from trees?
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/how-is-paper-made-from-trees
New device pulls water out of desert air
https://www.futurity.org/water-capture-device-3256912/
Lucid dreaming app triples users’ awareness in dreams, study finds
https://www.psypost.org/lucid-dreaming-app-triples-users-awareness-in-dreams-study-finds/
The Incas used mysterious stringy objects called ‘khipus’ to record data. We just got a step closer to understanding them
https://theconversation.com/the-incas-used-mysterious-stringy-objects-called-khipus-to-record-data-we-just-got-a-step-closer-to-understanding-them-233875
The Weird Worship of Tech That Demands Serious Questioning
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/weird-worship-tech-demands-serious-questioning-bookbite/52719/
Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall
https://www.popsci.com/science/largest-terror-bird/