Episode 299: Truing the Sun
The Poetry of Science

Episode 299: Truing the Sun

2025-04-07

This episode explores new research, which has found that insect brains might calculate the sun’s position using internal clocks and trigonometric circuits.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Insect’ by Annie Finch here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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