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 […]
Month: October 2008
Living magnets, shaped like weapons.
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 […]
Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
The LA Times reports on a new psychological study in Science that proves something we all probably take for granted – that warmth is more […]
One Step Closer to the Spotless Mind.
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 […]
Fart Stink Controls Blood Pressure.
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 […]
Science Art: Polycera atra, Lateral View by F.M. MacFarland.
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
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 […]
Glowing Proteins; Less-Than-Glowing Prospects?
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, […]
Big Stick.
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 […]
Satellite Discovers Pyramid at Nazca.
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 […]
Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International
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 […]
QuarkDance!
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 […]
Bonobos: NOT Hippies.
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 […]
Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.
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 […]
Mad Scientists For Obama
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 […]