Welcome to the Zeptoverse

The Zeptoverse is an informal scientific term for the realm of nature explored at the scale of a zeptometre (10⁻²¹ metres, or a billionth of a trillionth of a metre), roughly 100 billion times smaller than an atom. [1, 2] Key Details of the Discovery The Breakthrough: In November 2026, researchers working on the upgraded …

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The beginnning of the end?

AI is already used to write books and magazine articles. AI is replacing me. Ever since Google started using AI in its search engine, the number of daily views of my blog have been cut in half. Yes, that sounds ominous. The Google search engine has a new feature that creates images based on any …

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Can music can be used as medicine, Can Music Heal the Brain?

30:28 foundation for your statements give me a short list of some of the ailments that 30:35 have been alleviated by music I’ll start with Wellness so music boosts the immune system particularly immunoglobuline a 30:42 IGA is responsible for fighting off infections of the mucosal system which is covid or colds music also boosts …

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Too Cool for School

In 2005, an ecologist named Crow White drove to 12 locations inside an elk hunting zone in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and fired a .30-06 rifle into the air. Before each shot, he counted every raven within 100 meters. Then he pulled the trigger, waited ten minutes, and counted again. On different days at those same …

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It’s going to be ugly.

“Sometime around 2029, 2030 it’s going to go off a cliff,” he said, “and it’s going to be ugly.” Striped bass fishing could face collapse. I heard things were not good but I didn’t know it was this bad. I fished them while in Massachusetts and the last gasp of the year was to go …

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Seals

  A small seal and a huge elephant seal have more in common than they first appear! Both belong to the pinnipeds, together with sea lions and walruses. This image illustrates adult males measuring 1.7 m for a harbor seal, 2.3 m for a gray seal, 2.4 m for a California sea lion, 3 m …

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The Hazards Multiple, Strange Times

  The chances of being attacked by a bear carrying a landmine are low, but never zero.Somewhere in Ukraine, a Russian soldier just discovered the Geneva Convention has a wildlife loophole. Seems to check out.