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Scanned from The Encyclopedia of Food (The stories of foods by which we live, how and where they grow and are marketed, their comparative values and how best to use and enjoy them), by Artemas Ward, a man who knew a lot about food… and marketing.

I’d love to frame this and hang it on [...]

Technology Review covers the breakthrough of MIT chemist Daniel Nocera, who has figured out how to make like a leaf… and turn sunlight into fuel:

Carried out with the help of a catalyst he developed, the reaction is the first and most difficult step in splitting water to make hydrogen gas. And efficiently generating hydrogen from water, Nocera believes, [...]

The glorious MAKE blog has the scientific gift guide of my dreams: chemistry sets and DIY books for garage explosives experts and drug manufacturers. No, wait. Scientists! I mean scientists.

I began breathing heavily when I got to the entry on Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, and my eyes became glassy when I saw the link to [...]

Here, for your enjoyment, is a theremin concert by a master:

Thomas Grillo lives and teaches in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as educating the general public online.

Found [via].

From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here.]

SONG: “Build us a House (They Could See From Space).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Ancient Peru pyramid spotted by satellite”, Discovery, via MSNBC.com, 6 Oct 2008, as used in the post “Satellite Discovers Pyramid at Nazca.”

ABSTRACT: What started out as a song about that whole Ozymandias thing – building [...]

LiveScience is calling her a “shaman,” but since the 12,000-year-old grave is in Israel, not Siberia, that’s probably not exactly the right term. But whatever you want to call her, they’re pretty sure this ancient woman talked to the spirits:

The woman was about 45 years old when she died and based on measurements of the skull and long bone, [...]

New Scientist thrills me with a new push to get the entertainment industry to understand science:

The new effort, called the Science and Entertainment Exchange, is a project of the US National Academy of Sciences, and will be run by science writer Jennifer Ouellette, author of The Physics of the Buffyverse.

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The project is “vitally important”, said Seth MacFarlane, [...]

China is a complicated country, and the closer people look, the more complicated it gets. Take, for example, the latest findings on the mummies of Xinjiang. These well-preserved bodies date back nearly 4,000 years, and are the pride of this “autonomous region,” where Turkic Uighurs and Han Chinese often wrestle over who really has rights to the land. Although priceless [...]