If you’ve ever wondered what a dead fish is thinking, LiveScience has the data, thanks to a team that gave brain scans to a dead salmon:

It began in 2005 when Bennett picked up a salmon at a local market. An hour later he and colleagues stuck the fish in an fMRI scanner and did a bunch of different [...]

Your kids giving you lip?? Watch out, warns PhysOrg. Those are the ones who’re going to be in charge some day:

Good parenting may better prepare children for future leadership roles if the children happen to challenge the boundaries set out by their parents. This gives the children an opportunity to learn why the rules are in place [...]

Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, in the years before the Nanny-cam. What were they to do with those innocent children? Why, package and sell, of course. Again, and again, and again.

Allegorical image found via Wikimedia Commons.

SONG: Up, Up, Upsub1.

ABSTRACT:
So, I wrote that song about New Zealand’s not-so-mythical giant eagle, (Harpagornis moorei), but I wasn’t really satisfied with the way the rhythm track came out. And the monks – they didn’t fit once the tempo got halved. That’s the problem with deadlines, even self-imposed ones. Sometimes you just have to get the thing [...]

SPACE.com says we’re ready to set up shop on Luna, now that we’ve found reserves of water up there:

While scientists continued to suspect that water ice deposits could be found in the coldest spots of south pole craters that never saw sunlight, the consensus became that the rest of the moon was bone dry.

But new observations of [...]

ScienceInsider dares to contradict thousands of Alias fans with “facts” and “experimental proof” from a neuroscientist who explains why torture doesn’t work:

(Quoted from Trends in Cognitive Sciences):
Brain imaging in persons previously subjected to severe torture suggests that abnormal patterns of activation are present in the frontal and temporal lobes, leading to deficits in verbal memory for the recall of [...]

SONG: “Up, Up, Up.” (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Maori legend of man-eating bird is true”, from The Independent, 14 Sep 09, as used in the post “Behold the roc!”

ABSTRACT: I always wanted a pet roc. And I’m sure my pet roc would want me.

Besides guitar and voice recorded [...]

PhysOrg reveals why Japan is going to outlast us all – because instead of (or in addition to) prospecting for oil reserves, they’re going to put solar panels in orbit:

The planned solar station will produce 1 Gigawatt of electricity from its four km2 (approximately 2.5 square miles) array of solar panels, which is enough to power just under 300,000 [...]

New Scientist‘s microbiological reporting really makes you scared to ever go in the shower again:

“Run your shower for a minute or so before you get in, otherwise you’ll get a face full of bacteria.” That’s the advice of microbiologist Norman Pace, who has had the unenviable task of analysing the film of microbes that builds up within shower heads [...]