Science Art: <i>Four </i>Phymata<i> species</i> from "Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II," October 1951. SONG: Great Big Love Science Art: <i>HURRICANE FRAN - NARA - 17393787</i>, by NASA. Science Art: <i>Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy</i>, Arthur W. Head, 1917. Science Art: <i>Earth</i> by Henry De la Beche, from <i>Researches in Theoretical Geology</i>, 1834. Science Art: <i>Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.

SONG: Great Big Love

SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here)

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Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN - NARA - 17393787, by NASA.

Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big!

Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big st…

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Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.

You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes.

This is an illustr…

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Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.

This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we …

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Science Art: Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.

Styxosaurus is, or was, an elasmosaur – an undersea predator with a long neck and sharp teeth, all the better f…

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Swap DNA with bugs.

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Feeling like you need more intimacy in your life? Science Daily reveals an alternative to finding that special person in your life. Nature provides a […]

Washing away.

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Slate (yeah, not the first place I look for science news, but hey) unearths the sad truth about beaches that aren’t going to be beaches […]

Go figure.

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Fittingly enough, I posted that put-sugar-in-my-Coke song on the anniversary of New Coke’s introduction. Funny.

SONG: Mexican Coke.

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SONG: “Mexican Coke” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts […]

Turn on.

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New York Times has yet another report on new breakthroughs in using psychedelic drugs to heal: “All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating,” he […]

Making pavement pay.

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Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality: Authorities in Toulouse […]

An older testament.

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The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant: The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty […]