Robinson Crusoe Found.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The LA Times reports on a new psychological study in Science that proves something we all probably take for granted – that warmth is more […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SONG:Now the Snow [Download] . (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “It’s snowing on Mars”, iTwire, 30 Sep 2008, as cited […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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