SONG: Birds Are Digging
SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “How A Black Fossil Digger Became a Superstar in the Very White World of Paleontology”… Read the rest “SONG: Birds Are Digging”
SONG: Birds Are Digging
SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “How A Black Fossil Digger…
Read moreScience Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023
This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Eart…
Read moreScience Art: Stand-Pipe, Boston, 1882
A hydrological edifice. As explained in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relatin…
Read moreScience Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)..., 1915.
The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary a…
Read moreScience Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905
This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this …
Read moreScience Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing.
I found this anatomical image while browsin…
Read more Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.
NPR shares romance among the insects with research that shows at least one species of cockroach, Salganea taiwanensis, forms long-term pair-bonds. And, poetically, these cockroach … Read the rest “Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.”
Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023
This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Earth. The capsule is filled with samples from an asteroid.
The description, from… Read the rest “Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023”
Palm-sized glass can store 2 million books’ worth of data
PhysOrg looks through a Microsoft Research Labs breakthrough called Silica that can use pulses of laser light to inscribe ordinary glass blocks so that they’ll work as a data-storage… Read the rest “Palm-sized glass can store 2 million books’ worth of data”
Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.
Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the planet-breaking force of an asteroid… Read the rest “Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.”
Our brains run on 20 watts of power.
Are we bright, or really kinda dim? IFL Science reports that the human brain uses about as much electricity as the average computer monitor:
… Read the rest “Our brains run on 20 watts of power.”Considered as an organ, the brain is admittedly
Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean
BBC’s Science Focus imagines a brighter future … brighter from the blazing fire-tornadoes used to clean plastics and oil from our over-polluted oceans:
… Read the rest “Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean”Taking inspiration
Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.
The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left coronary from the… Read the rest “Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.”
A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.
IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, everywhere around … Read the rest “A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.”
School bus-sized spinosaur discovered
Last month, BBC’s Science Focus reported on an “astonishingly” large dinosaur discovered in the Sahara Desert of Niger — a bus-sized behemoth with a crescent-shaped… Read the rest “School bus-sized spinosaur discovered”
Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905
This is a switch for “constant current” electricity to go into a building, a “A modern commercial form of this switch,” is what the book calls it.
The book in question… Read the rest “Science Art: Modern Electrical Construction, Fig. 58, 1905”
Better long-term memory … for females, at least.
Nature reports on research that gave mice acetate, a common byproduct of digesting alcohol, glucose, or fiber… and found that it improved long-term memory — in the female … Read the rest “Better long-term memory … for females, at least.”
No song today.
I have the bones of a song, but no proper lyrics. I owe you a song, and a penitential cover. Mea maxima culpa.
Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.
Unblinking, the lidless eye gazes out from its skull, unseeing.
I found this anatomical image while browsing through the “Featured Images” collection on Wikimedia Commons… Read the rest “Science Art: Eye orbit anatomy anterior 2, by Patrick Lynch.”