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Month: January 2008

Gold atoms

31 January 2008 grant b 0

In case you were wondering, gold atoms are cool.

Skin Rhythms.

30 January 2008 grant b 0

New Scientist stops the clock with timely news about skin. Apparently, skin is pretty deep – it’s somehow tied to the brain as part of our internal clock:

“Knowing that skin

… Read the rest “Skin Rhythms.”

Night Lights Are Killing Us?

29 January 2008 grant b 0

Man, what, are teddy bears next? The Lancet reports on a survey of studies that, combined, seem to show that night lights are causing cancer (registration required, but free):

Among the

… Read the rest “Night Lights Are Killing Us?”

Health Magnet.

28 January 2008 grant b 0

LiveScience notices something odd that’ll have some hard-minded skeptics practicing their eyebrow raises. Medical magnets – one of the old staples of alternative medicine… Read the rest “Health Magnet.”

Science Art: “Anatomical Man,” Les Très Riches Heures by Duc de Berry

27 January 2008 grant b 0


Human anatomy explained as an allegory for astrology, or vice versa. From the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.

The King of Paper Airplanes.

25 January 2008 grant b 2

New Scientist reports on Japanese space scientists creating origami that’s out of this world:

The origami space plane will be a similar design, Suzuki says, but only about 20 centimetres

… Read the rest “The King of Paper Airplanes.”

Elephants evolve smaller tusks.

24 January 2008 grant b 0

The Telegraph reports on the strange findings of Iain Douglas Hamilton and his colleagues, who appear to have discovered evidence that elephants are evolving smaller tusks due to ivory… Read the rest “Elephants evolve smaller tusks.”

SONG: You’ve Got Power

23 January 2008 grant b 0

SONG: “You’ve Got Power” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2007:… Read the rest “SONG: You’ve Got Power”

That stuff you’re breathing.

22 January 2008 grant b 0

Nature discusses new findings about how we’ll all get superpowers, like heat vision and wings, just by breathing! Well, what they really said was that air pollution mutates sperm… Read the rest “That stuff you’re breathing.”

It flowers itself to death

21 January 2008 grant b 0

New Scientist reports on a frankly bizarre palm tree just discovered by a family picnicking in Madagascar:

“It’s a species that is so significant from all sorts of perspectives,

… Read the rest “It flowers itself to death”

Science Art: Aeshna cyanea – head close-up

20 January 2008 grant b 0


A common dragonfly as seen in an uncommon way by Wikimedia Commons user "Aka."

Drug for cold turkey.

18 January 2008 grant b 0

The Journal of Ethnopharmacology has a survey of a subculture that could turn addiction therapy on its ear – an informal alliance of people using the psychedelic drug ibogaine to … Read the rest “Drug for cold turkey.”

Next step: the monkey cyborg revolution!

17 January 2008 grant b 0

The New York Times unveils the creation of the world’s first globally activated monkey-guided robots:

On Thursday, an alert and ready-to-work Idoya stepped onto her treadmill

… Read the rest “Next step: the monkey cyborg revolution!”

It’s an odd universe.

16 January 2008 grant b 0

That’s right. AP is reporting on an announcement from the American Astronomical Society that the universe is more violent and awe-inspiring than previously thought:

The research

… Read the rest “It’s an odd universe.”

You’re not real

15 January 2008 grant b 0

Dude.

What if, like…

…like, the WHOLE UNIVERSE was just…

…like, made up, maaan? Like it was all VIRTUAL REALITY, man? (asks the latest New Scientist):

Brian Whitworth

… Read the rest “You’re not real”

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