Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. Finally, however, he was successful.
From Public Domain Review‘s collection of prints of Western inventors, artists and scholars produced by the Japanese Department of Education.
In part, to demonstrate [...]
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering provides insights into dromaeosaurid flight performance”, Nature Communications, 15 July 2014, as used in the post “A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!).”
ABSTRACT: It had four [...]
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here comes from the main artery to the eyes, but branches off to feed the nose. Where things get all coily and spirally.
From “Anatomy of Orbit”, [...]
Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design.
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This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat.
No, he doesn’t look very free in that image. Looks a little oppressed, to tell the truth.
Follow your tail, rare, worried bat.
Be free.
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it:
This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was put on a female polar bear in the Beaufort Sea during April 2014 by the US Geological Survey. The video, which is the first ever from a free-ranging polar [...]
Nature shares satellite data that shows not only lakes, rivers and reservoirs shrinking across the whole U.S. Southwest, but even water underground is going away:
To track groundwater losses, researchers used data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a pair of satellites operated by NASA and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) that measure [...]
That’s what Sci-News.com and Science Daily are reporting that University of Toronto researchers have found. A trove of thousands of really really old tools:
Science Daily
Steven James Walker from the Department of Archaeology at UCT, lead author of the journal paper, says: “The site is amazing and it is threatened. We’ve been working [...]
Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. Finally, however, he was successful.
From Public Domain Review‘s collection of prints of Western inventors, artists and scholars produced by the Japanese Department of Education.
In part, to demonstrate [...]
Investors are (quietly, says Scientific American) lining up support for companies figuring out the ins and outs of nuclear fusion:
…[T]he fragments of information that have filtered out make it clear that the building houses one of the largest fusion experiments now operating in the United States. It is also one of the most unconventional. [...]
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering provides insights into dromaeosaurid flight performance”, Nature Communications, 15 July 2014, as used in the post “A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!).”
ABSTRACT: It had four [...]
Yep. Scientific American has more on a painful consequence of temperatures swinging upward unexpectedly:
In a study published earlier this month in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, [Gregory] Tasian [of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia] and his collaborators reported that higher average daily temperatures increased the relative risk of forming kidney stones. The results [...]
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here comes from the main artery to the eyes, but branches off to feed the nose. Where things get all coily and spirally.
From “Anatomy of Orbit”, [...]
Salk Institute scientists have discovered an injectable protein that reverses diabetes for two days:
In mice with diet-induced diabetes — the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans — a single injection of the protein FGF1 is enough to restore blood sugar levels to a healthy range for more than two days.
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“Controlling glucose is [...]
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets:
The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic site on the White Nile in Central Sudan. It demonstrates that for at least 7,000 years, beginning before the development of agriculture and continuing after agricultural plants were also available [...]
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