https://tree.dance/Exploring the intersection of ecology, technology, and culture.en-USWed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/your-phone-is-a-parasite/Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/your-phone-is-a-parasite/What once was a benign extension, or addition, to our intelligence is increasingly hostile to our well-being.https://tree.dance/seeds/scientists-find-color-olo/Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/scientists-find-color-olo/Sensory perception has stymied thinkers for millennia. The discovery of a new color might change that.https://tree.dance/essays/book-review-a-skeptical-look-at-grand-designs-for-the-future/Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/book-review-a-skeptical-look-at-grand-designs-for-the-future/As a techno-elite looks to colomize space, their aspirations hide a sorry ethics back on Earth.https://tree.dance/essays/humans-are-unique-but-not-necessarily-special/Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/humans-are-unique-but-not-necessarily-special/Researchers tested 105 human children, 106 adult chimpanzees and 32 adult orangutans on a battery of cognitive assessments. The results were interesting.https://tree.dance/videos/baudrillard-experience-hyperreal-video/Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/baudrillard-experience-hyperreal-video/Jean Baudrillard's query into media and meaning help us question what it is we're actually experiencing.https://tree.dance/essays/nicholas-carr-superbloom-book-review/Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/nicholas-carr-superbloom-book-review/Online connections fray social fabric argues Nicholas Carr in his new book.https://tree.dance/essays/dead-trees-abundant-life/Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/dead-trees-abundant-life/How deadwood plays an outsized role in supporting fungi, bacteria, insects and other life forms.https://tree.dance/seeds/uk-musicians-protest-tech-ai-giveaway/Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/uk-musicians-protest-tech-ai-giveaway/A thousand UK musicians release a silent album protesting a government proposal that lets AI companies freely pillage their work.https://tree.dance/seeds/usaid-you-dont-know-what-you-lost/Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/usaid-you-dont-know-what-you-lost/What happens when USAID is gone? It's only been a few days and so far it's chaos.https://tree.dance/videos/a-body-called-life/Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/a-body-called-life/A young man explores the microscopic world in order to make sense of his own.https://tree.dance/essays/what-goes-if-usaid-goes/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/what-goes-if-usaid-goes/The destruction of USAID will create shockwaves throughout the world and worsen the ongoing climate and extinction crises.https://tree.dance/seeds/wasp-127b-is-a-planet-with-twenty-thousand-mile-per-hour-winds/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/wasp-127b-is-a-planet-with-twenty-thousand-mile-per-hour-winds/The universe is a strange place. Scientists just discovered a planet with 20,000 mile per hour winds.https://tree.dance/seeds/scrubbing-weather-data/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/scrubbing-weather-data/We’re not rocket scientists but with weather in the contiguous United States getting hotter, wetter and pricier, now might not be the best time to scrub data from governmental web sites.https://tree.dance/seeds/consider-the-potato/Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/consider-the-potato/Potatoes are awesome. Big Potato, not so much. In the United States, it faces lawsuits over price fixing.https://tree.dance/seeds/mountaineers-and-scientists-partner-to-collect-data/Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/mountaineers-and-scientists-partner-to-collect-data/As mountaineers trek to remote areas that most scientists can't get to, a research partnership is born.https://tree.dance/videos/if-parasites-disappeared-video/Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/if-parasites-disappeared-video/Parasites are the puppet masters behind everything you thought had free will.https://tree.dance/seeds/oarfish-washing-ashore-in-california-is-a-bad-omen/Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/oarfish-washing-ashore-in-california-is-a-bad-omen/Three oarfish washed up on California's shore in the last few months. Scientists only know of 19 in the previous 123 years. What gives?https://tree.dance/videos/time-passages-learning-life-in-a-colorado-meadow/Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/time-passages-learning-life-in-a-colorado-meadow/A short documentary chronicles the passage of native wildflowers and hummingbirds as they're tracked over the decades by grandfather and now granddaughter.https://tree.dance/essays/paul-caponigro-photography-spirited-life/Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/essays/paul-caponigro-photography-spirited-life/Remembering the remarkable connection made between lens, spirit and the natural world.https://tree.dance/seeds/1958-video-climate-change/Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/1958-video-climate-change/A 1958 film directed by Frank Capra, funded by AT&T and aired on American TV warns us about climate change. Yes, in 1958, almost seventy years ago.https://tree.dance/videos/breathe-deep-antarctica/Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/breathe-deep-antarctica/A beautiful short film captures the Antarctica's coastal waters.https://tree.dance/videos/video-beetles-in-flight/Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/video-beetles-in-flight/A mesmerizing exploration at six thousand frames per seconds captures the mechanics and beauty of beetles in flight.https://tree.dance/videos/sailing-through-space-erik-wernquist-video/Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/sailing-through-space-erik-wernquist-video/Will future space tourism mimic the luxury cruise ships of our past?https://tree.dance/seeds/ai-deep-learning-ecogen-mimics-bird-songs/Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/ai-deep-learning-ecogen-mimics-bird-songs/How do you track rare birds if you don't know their songs? Researchers are hoping AI can helphttps://tree.dance/videos/when-algae-met-fungi-lifes-most-successful-partnership/Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/videos/when-algae-met-fungi-lifes-most-successful-partnership/Buried in the soil lies a hidden network that transformed the planet and plays a vital role in ecosystems today.https://tree.dance/seeds/native-tree-planting-app/Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://tree.dance/seeds/native-tree-planting-app/Large-scale tree planting projects require a diversity of species that benefit human and non-human creatures alike. How to choose, and what to choose, is difficult. Fortunately, there's an app for that.