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Photographer Tim Flach’s new book is unusually personal: it includes images not only of his cat—a regal orange-and-white former barn kitten named Loki—but also of his brain, thanks to MRI scans ...

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Cats famously always land on their feet. Well, almost always. For more than a century, physicists toyed with this idea, using ...

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Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. “The ...