Science, Please

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Plus: Who links the following? 🔵 🌍, 🤫 🌱...

Leonie Mercedes

If you're totally eclipsed out, I have some bad news 🌚

Aug 14, 2026

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3 min read

If you're totally eclipsed out, I have some bad news 🌚

Plus: What invisible agent raises both meals and spirits?

Leonie Mercedes

A spider web so sticky it catches people

Aug 7, 2026

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3 min read

A spider web so sticky it catches people

Plus: where to stream the solar eclipse on Wednesday

Leonie Mercedes

This educational quilt took 7 years to make

Jul 31, 2026

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3 min read

This educational quilt took 7 years to make

Plus: Find the hidden microorganism 👀

Leonie Mercedes

Do *you* get this “walks into a bar” joke?

Jul 24, 2026

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2 min read

**Do you get this “walks into a bar” joke?**

Plus: These goats don’t fight evil. They consume it

Leonie Mercedes

I guess... we’ll just have to evolve too

Jul 17, 2026

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2 min read

I guess... we’ll just have to evolve too

Plus 2 talks and lectures on icy moons and the geology of colour

Leonie Mercedes

How to move the impossibly precious Bayeux Tapestry 300 miles

Jul 10, 2026

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3 min read

How to move the impossibly precious Bayeux Tapestry 300 miles

Plus 3 talks and lectures on psychoanalysis, natural history, and what it means to be alive

Leonie Mercedes

Jul 3, 2026

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2 min read

I got the lurgy 😷

So here are 5 books I read and loved this year

Leonie Mercedes

Fruit fly sperm and spaghetti have something in common

Jun 26, 2026

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2 min read

Fruit fly sperm and spaghetti have something in common

Plus, somehow, two instances of invertebrate cannibalism

Leonie Mercedes

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