Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn
Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.
By: Danny Robb
https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/
Christiaan Huygens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648
Our bodies are marvels of evolution, yet evolution is not a perfect engineer. It works with what it’s got, which explains our sore feet and aching backs. We look at our complicated evolutionary past and What Moves Us on this week’s Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/what-moves-us
As I split my time between SF and Monterey:
If what I keep hearing in SF is ‘AGI’ (lol) what I keep hearing about in Monterey is ‘sea star wasting disease’
And they have finally found the cause for it. It’s a huge deal for climate, etc
https://apnews.com/article/sea-star-wasting-disease-epidemic-f2ab802ae8787618a5905c566d38e0c5
