Progress on harnessing spider silk; Unexpected energy in "empty" space; Zapping brains to improve concentration; Accidential characterization of Martian dust; A toothbrush that generates electricity to shock your teeth; Blue Origin's New Glenn updates; A temperature record in space; New history of Celtic and Germanic languages
The Nibelungenlied Review
I am hesitant to draw significant conclusions about the work itself based on the transliteration, but I’ll draw a few for the purposes of this review. Most significant: why was Seigfried murdered?
Fewer Words, Longer Books
rigorous, quantitative analyses to confirm the trend, so what I really have is a suspicion based on inference, internal logic, and anecdotal evidence; however, it struck me as a sufficiently interesting observation that I should desire to share it with you. The trend is this: the English language is losing words (ironic, considering our post about word creation), and is using more of them to compensate.
