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Month: October 2008

Robinson Crusoe Found.

31 October 2008 grant b 0

Yes, the plucky, inventive island castaway Robinson Crusoe was a fictional character. But author Robert Louis Stevenson, writing in the mid-1800s, based him on the very real Alexander… Read the rest “Robinson Crusoe Found.”

Living magnets, shaped like weapons.

30 October 2008 grant b 0

Researchers peering through microscopes at ancient mud have found the fossilized remains of a truly bizarre life form:

“Imagine our surprise to discover not only a fossil bloom

… Read the rest “Living magnets, shaped like weapons.”

Baby, It’s Cold Outside.

29 October 2008 grant b 0

The LA Times reports on a new psychological study in Science that proves something we all probably take for granted – that warmth is more than skin deep:

To their surprise, they found

… Read the rest “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”

One Step Closer to the Spotless Mind.

28 October 2008 grant b 0

Did I post this before? I have no way of knowing. New Scientist tells me (for what I hope is the first time) that researchers have found a single enzyme that can erase specific memories:

Several

… Read the rest “One Step Closer to the Spotless Mind.”

Fart Stink Controls Blood Pressure.

27 October 2008 grant b 0

Perhaps not heart-stoppingly foul, but, as LiveScience informs us, that distinctive smell is enough to give the circulatory system pause:

The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen

… Read the rest “Fart Stink Controls Blood Pressure.”

Science Art: Polycera atra, Lateral View by F.M. MacFarland.

26 October 2008 grant b 0



Click to embiggen slightly.

Some call them sea slugs, but they’re so striking, so sensual, that nudibranch has to be the better term.

From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.

SONG: Now the Snow

23 October 2008 grant b 0

SONG:Now the Snow. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “It’s snowing on Mars”, iTwire, 30 Sep 2008, as cited in … Read the rest “SONG: Now the Snow”

Glowing Proteins; Less-Than-Glowing Prospects?

22 October 2008 grant b 0

Recently, Dr. Roger Tsien earned a Nobel prize for his work in creating a stunning array of colorful, glowing proteins. Not only are they, like, totally psychedelically intense, man, but… Read the rest “Glowing Proteins; Less-Than-Glowing Prospects?”

Big Stick.

21 October 2008 grant b 0

Entolomologists working in Borneo have found what they believe to be world’s longest insect:

PhysOrg writes:
The specimen was found by a local villager and handed to Malaysian amateur

… Read the rest “Big Stick.”

Satellite Discovers Pyramid at Nazca.

20 October 2008 grant b 1

You may have caught this on MSNBC, but Italian researchers studying imagery from the Quickbird satellite discovered a 97,000-square-foot pyramid on the banks of Peru’s Nazca river… Read the rest “Satellite Discovers Pyramid at Nazca.”

Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International

19 October 2008 grant b 0

I’m quite fond of the aurochs. As the feared onager was to the domestic donkey, so the aurochs to domestic cattle. Onagers gave their name to a medieval siege weapon; aurochs gave their… Read the rest “Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International”

QuarkDance!

17 October 2008 grant b 0

At last!

A peppy, eternal polka that illustrates the movements of subatomic particles!

Found in this fun Hey, Poindexter! interview, which also includes the following inspirational … Read the rest “QuarkDance!”

Bonobos: NOT Hippies.

16 October 2008 grant b 0

For a while in the 1990s, it seemed like everybody wanted to be a pygmy chimp. A bonobono. All bonobos did, they said, was hang out in the jungle, avoid mean old regular chimpanzees and make … Read the rest “Bonobos: NOT Hippies.”

Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.

15 October 2008 grant b 0

WebMD reports on the first clinical application for using really big magnets to zap depressed people’s brain waves:

The clearance comes nearly two years after a January 2007 FDA

… Read the rest “Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.”

Mad Scientists For Obama

14 October 2008 grant b 0

Far be it from this site to endorse a candidate for the American presidential election…



…but who would Dr. Frankenstein vote for?

As inspired by the outrage of planetarium … Read the rest “Mad Scientists For Obama”

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