Four-legged Fish.
It walks! It has gills, but by goodness it WALKS! The BBC isn’t quite so enthusiastic in describing the discovery of a four-legged fish fossil:
… Read the rest “Four-legged Fish.”“From a distance, it would have
Month: June 2008
Science Art: Coelastrum by Andrews
Simon Andrews took this microscopic photograph of a cell cluster of coelastrum algae and submitted it to Wikimedia Commons, where I found it.
Brief: Phoenix on Twitter
How much am I loving the Mars Phoenix tweets?
Very much.
Meditation, Mindfulness and “Untraining” the Brain.
ScienceBlogs has (have?) a piece on an interesting study about ways to make your thinking less hidebound and more creative:
… Read the rest “Meditation, Mindfulness and “Untraining” the Brain.”Yet relatively few studies focus on whether thought and behavior
Spray-on skin.
PopSci‘s got skin in a can. I mean it. An aerosol. You spray it on burns. It’s skin in a can:
… Read the rest “Spray-on skin.”Within the next five years, Atala aims to build a portable version for the battlefield
Neanderthals About Town.
PhysOrg.com puts on the Ritz with a new discovery about the sophisticated Neanderthals of Great Britain:
… Read the rest “Neanderthals About Town.”“The tools we’ve found at the site are technologically advanced and potentially
SONG: All Our Tomorrows
SONG: “All Our Tomorrows” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “DNA Retrieved from 1,000-Year-Old Vikings”… Read the rest “SONG: All Our Tomorrows”
Science Art: “Dirigible Balloon” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Scared eyes see more.
Eyes as round as quarters, mouth pulled into a hideous grimace, New Scientist pulls back the veil on a chilling new study that reveals the survival benefits of looking terrified:
… Read the rest “Scared eyes see more.”The open
Why it’s good to be baaaad.
New Scientist reveals why bad boys get more action – it’s because of the evolutionary pressure of the “dark triad” of personality traits, say mild-mannered … Read the rest “Why it’s good to be baaaad.”
Honk if you get road rage!
Nature reports on a newly discovered link between road rage and bumper stickers. In other words, those pithy little messages say more than what’s printed:
… Read the rest “Honk if you get road rage!”Bumper stickers such as
The Ondes Martenot
Radiohead plays one. Gorillaz plays one.
Why don’t I?
A keyboard invented by a cellist in 1928 who wanted to be able to do glissandos and vibratos. It’s not a theremin, and it’s… Read the rest “The Ondes Martenot”
The Dwarf Dinosaurs of Transylvania.
Discovery Channel reports on new proof supporting an eccentric, motorcycle-riding baron’s unusual fossil find – a previously unknown “island” of tiny dinosaurs… Read the rest “The Dwarf Dinosaurs of Transylvania.”
Pity Poor Pluto
Not only is that icy world at the fringe of the solar system no longer a planet, but, as LiveScience reports, it’s no longer even a dwarf planet. It’s something else altogether… Read the rest “Pity Poor Pluto”
Science Art: “Trepanerat kranium” Nordisk Familjebok
A trepanned skull, from Nordisk Familjebok Encyclopedia, found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Trepanation is a bit of an archaeological mystery, apparently carried… Read the rest “Science Art: “Trepanerat kranium” Nordisk Familjebok”