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Month: June 2008

Four-legged Fish.

30 June 2008 grant b 1

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:

“From a distance, it would have

… Read the rest “Four-legged Fish.”

Science Art: Coelastrum by Andrews

29 June 2008 grant b 0


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

28 June 2008 grant b 0

How much am I loving the Mars Phoenix tweets?

Very much.

Meditation, Mindfulness and “Untraining” the Brain.

27 June 2008 grant b 0

ScienceBlogs has (have?) a piece on an interesting study about ways to make your thinking less hidebound and more creative:

Yet relatively few studies focus on whether thought and behavior

… Read the rest “Meditation, Mindfulness and “Untraining” the Brain.”

Spray-on skin.

26 June 2008 grant b 0

PopSci‘s got skin in a can. I mean it. An aerosol. You spray it on burns. It’s skin in a can:

Within the next five years, Atala aims to build a portable version for the battlefield

… Read the rest “Spray-on skin.”

Neanderthals About Town.

25 June 2008 grant b 0

PhysOrg.com puts on the Ritz with a new discovery about the sophisticated Neanderthals of Great Britain:

“The tools we’ve found at the site are technologically advanced and potentially

… Read the rest “Neanderthals About Town.”

SONG: All Our Tomorrows

23 June 2008 grant b 1

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

22 June 2008 grant b 0

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.

21 June 2008 grant b 0

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:

The open

… Read the rest “Scared eyes see more.”

Why it’s good to be baaaad.

20 June 2008 grant b 0

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!

19 June 2008 grant b 1

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:

Bumper stickers such as

… Read the rest “Honk if you get road rage!”

The Ondes Martenot

18 June 2008 grant b 0

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.

17 June 2008 grant b 0

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

16 June 2008 grant b 0

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

15 June 2008 grant b 0


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”

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