The feedback is New scientists Look on the popular side on the latest news in science and technological. You can submit items that can be enhanced by comments by sending an e-mail to e-mails@newScientist.com
A quick botany lesson
We never miss a rhythm, so the comments, provoked by the deputy editor -in -chief and Swiftie Alexandra Thompson, examined a major article in the Botanical annalsPosted in August. His name is “Dance with Plants: Taylor Swift at Taylor Swift clips as advanced organizers for significant botany learning”.
The thesis is that secondary students present “a general general interest in plants”, leading to “plant blindness”. Teachers who find it difficult to transmit the magic of botany repeat equipment and have enough. Plants are considered halfway, so students do not sneak into the garden to see them. I’m just, I mean, it’s exhausting, you know? No one is really interested in botany, but you should be, you should be, you should be.
However, with fall leaves that fall like parts in place, researchers have a possible solution: showing their students Swift Taylor videos.
Now it may not seem relevant. Swift is not the kind of girl who should burst into a learning opportunity. But his videos show a lot of plants. “On 61 official clips available on the Swift YouTube channel, 53 (87%) showed botanical elements,” note the authors.
By showing videos such as greenery led by greenery for Cardigan In their classes, the authors were able to introduce subjects such as “the concepts of photosynthesis, the competition for lightning, forestry litter, nutritional cycling, seasonal variation, the structure of canopy, vegetable habits and morphological characteristics”.
Even if botany is a rose garden filled with thorns, students have become enthusiastic about plants, saying things like: “You look like my next error.”
Communicors of Botany: It’s a revolution. What you’re looking for is here all the time. Stop claiming that you are not secret swings and start using your videos as teaching aid. Soon you will win your students.
The comments are impatiently awaiting an update once the researchers were lucky to listen to The life of a showgirl, Which, at the time of writing, slowly throws itself to your favorite city.
Acronyms in Gogo
The comments continue our quest for the most inspired scientific acronyms, or failing that, the most desperately forced and unnatural. Readers highlighted two, which the comments should have really spotted – because they were printed in this same magazine.
First of all, Erik Foxcroft stresses that Graham Lawton’s functionality on chronic sinus infections, printed “a few pages before your column,” said the Sino-Nasal, or Snot result test. It was just under our nose. The Morve was mentioned by feedback in 2001, but we forgot it, so we now do it again.
Meanwhile, Johan Gotthardt Olsen stressed a September Nature Document, describing particular rock formations discovered by perseverance Mars Rover, which could be proof of ancient Martian life. This was covered by New scientist In detail, but we missed acronyms that Olsen has spotted.
One of the instruments is called Rimfax, in honor of Hrímfaxi, the night horse in Nordic mythology. The acronym is derived, appropriately, of “radar imaging for mars’ subsurface experience”.
But things improve. “We get our reward later, where we meet Sherloc and Watson,” writes Olsen. These represent “the digitization of habitable environments with Raman and the luminescence for organics and chemicals” and the “wide angle topographic sensor for operations and engineering”. Olsen says: “I tip my hat with a deep respect for the powerful minds behind these two.”
The comments want to know why perseverance has also not carried the instructor for the irritization of Raman and radiation tomography. In addition, comments must read New scientist Sometimes.
Critters, Gremlins, oh my
Exciting news of The Wall Street JournalWho reports that Optai makes her first film. Well, in a way. OPENAI “lends its computer tools and resources” to Vertigo Films, which produces the film based on an idea of Chad Nelson, a “specialist in creation” in Openai.
The film will be called Criterionprobably because the title correctly spelled Critters has already been taken by a 1986 science fiction-comedy-horror film. The surprising originality does not stop there. This is the story of “forest creatures that go on an adventure after their village has been disrupted by a stranger”.
The film is an expansion of a short film in 2023, also called Criterionthat you can monitor free on YouTube. The short film is presented as “the first animated short film using the generative power of Dall-E AI to design all the visuals-each character, each background … Basically everyone Critterz”.
Only Dall-e could have found designs as wild as the Critterz, which certainly does not resemble the monsters of Where wild things are. The producers hired animators to make the short, but there seems to be little animation. A YouTube commentator noted: “I love to watch a whole film of standing characters in the same place while looking at me.”
The comments have known everything, and we can point out that the best joke is that the film is told by “the neighbor of David Porteborough, Dennis”. We can’t wait to see how exciting it becomes when it is stretched to include the length. Apparently, he made his debut in Cannes next year. Mark your calendars.
Do you have a story for comments?
You can send stories to the comments by e-mail to feedback@newScientist.com. Please include your personal address. This week’s comments can be seen on our website.
