The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway? nyer.cm/Tn8SHwc

"Max Planck Society discontinues agreement with Elsevier; stands firm with Projekt DEAL negotiations " mpdl.mpg.de/en/505

University of California challenges Elsevier over access to scholarly research ihenow.com/2FuCXe0

Measuring What Matters in Science blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mea… via Scientific American

There's a kind of toxic debt in the nation's built environment, and climate change is revealing how much we will really have to pay to maintain the country's infrastructure, writes Kevin Alexis Arango Madrigal. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Graphic art shows how most Iranians have been cut off from the internet for three days. #IranianProtests

Over 100 people killed in #Iran protests, Amnesty reports. Experts say death toll may be even higher, judging by images of violent crackdown of protests by security forces in multiple cities. My piece ⁦The Independent independent.co.uk/news/world/ira…

The image detective Elisabeth Bik's unpaid work comes with a heavy price. “Increasingly famous, Bik has become a target. Social-media trolls have attacked her, and critics have tried to spread misinformation about her.” My latest for @newyorker.com newyorker.com/science/elemen…

“We need to move away from a conservation paradigm of protecting the earth from change to a design paradigm” wpo.st/Cnzd1

By leaking light, squid hides in plain sight sciencenews.org/article/leakin…

Evolutionary forces are causing a boom in bad science newscientist.com/article/209654…

Planet is "Earth-like" in the same sense distant headlights on a desert road are 1968 Mustang-like. Could be a Pinto x.com/fcain/status/7…

China’s $450 billion farm plan could determine our fate grist.org/food/chinas-45… via grist

#SiliconValley David is a great and thoughtful speaker. Definitely worth attending. x.com/DrFunkySpoon/s…

#Seagrass ecosystems reduce exposure to bacterial pathogens of humans, fishes, and invertebrates science.sciencemag.org/content/355/63… Cornell CALS

Here is the TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits scaled relative to two other busy multi planet systems

All the #TRAPPIST1 planets compared to our solar system, plus multimedia is here: exoplanets.nasa.gov/trappist1/

Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math goo.gl/f7NTBZ

Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… #aging Harvard Medical School #science #biology

Just learned from Peter Kareiva - CA Central Valley grows one-quarter of the USA’s food on less than 1% of its farmland! #CentralValley #CAGROWN