2025-07-21
8 分钟What comes after rockets that can land?
What happened, Mark?
Why don't we have a space elevator today?
We don't have a space elevator today, and I really wouldn't hold your breath about getting one in the near future.
Could you keep up on a test made for a goat?
And then finally I picked up, you know, all the goats had sort of these yellow tags on their ears.
Oh my gosh, you cheated like an AI.
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Happy Monday, listeners.
For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman.
You may have noticed we've been taking a bit of a break from our usual Monday News Roundup to make room for special episodes, including our bird flu series, as well as to accommodate some summer holidays and vacation plans for our small but mighty team.
We'll be back to the News Roundup format next week.
For today, I thought it would be fun to dip back into the Scientific American archives for a few minutes.
Let's check in on what Siam was up to exactly one century ago, in July of 1925.
I'll start with the issue's cover story, which was contributed by the curator of marine life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and seems to have been written, at least in large part, to introduce readers to the concept of tide pools.
These are indents in rocky coastal areas that during high tide get filled with water, which remains trapped inside once the tide goes back out.
The writer describes the abundant marine life that could be found in the high tide puddles of Woods Hole, Massachusetts and other Massachusetts tidal zones, waxing poetic about barnacles and sea worms, which he compares to acrobats and goddesses of the sea, respectively.
100 years later, scientists and lay people alike are still quite taken with tide pools.
They're really interesting environments.