Elise Andrew

Abstract Rebound effects (REs) frequently undermine the potential of sustainability-oriented interventions, hindering societies from living within ecological limits. Conventional rebound research often relies on economic mechanisms, such as income and price effects, to explain their occurrence. Practice-oriented rebound research, however, can expand existing understandings to reveal how rebounds unfold as part of the performance of everyday life in unique socio-temporal and spatial contexts.

Unlike what you might have heard in sci-fi movies, sound does not travel through a vacuum. How can space have sound? Sound travels in waves just like light or heat does, but unlike in those mediums, sound travels in space by making molecules vibrate. For sound to travel there has to be something with molecules for it to travel through. In space, the ‘sounds’ that are recorded are the electromagnetic vibrations that naturally occur in the vacuum of space.

Vsauce It’s a question that everyone has pondered at one time or another: does everyone view colors in the same way? Of course, there are people with color blindness and other disorders that do skew their perception of color. But among the rest of us with normal color vision, can we ever be sure we’re seeing exactly the same thing? In this video from Vsauce, Michael investigates this very question in addition to other other quandaries regarding animal intelligence, feelings, and perception.