Scanned from The Encyclopedia of Food (The stories of foods by which we live, how and where they grow and are marketed, their comparative values and how best to use and enjoy… Read the rest “Science Art: Gathering the Ripe Pods of the Cacao, or Chocolate, Tree”
Technology Review covers the breakthrough of MIT chemist Daniel Nocera, who has figured out how to make like a leaf… and turn sunlight into fuel:
… Read the rest “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower….”Carried out with the help of a catalyst
The glorious MAKE blog has the scientific gift guide of my dreams: chemistry sets and DIY books for garage explosives experts and drug manufacturers. No, wait. Scientists! I mean scientists.… Read the rest “Gift Guide: CHEMISTRY!”
Here, for your enjoyment, is a theremin concert by a master:
Thomas Grillo lives and teaches in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as educating the general public online.
Found [via].… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Thomas Grillo.”
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here.]
SONG: “Build us a House (They Could See From Space).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Ancient Peru pyramid… Read the rest “SONG: Build us a House (They Could See From Space)”
LiveScience is calling her a “shaman,” but since the 12,000-year-old grave is in Israel, not Siberia, that’s probably not exactly the right term. But whatever you … Read the rest “The Grave of the Priestess”
New Scientist thrills me with a new push to get the entertainment industry to understand science:
… Read the rest “Hollywood, Meet Science.”The new effort, called the Science and Entertainment Exchange, is a project of the US National
China is a complicated country, and the closer people look, the more complicated it gets. Take, for example, the latest findings on the mummies of Xinjiang. These well-preserved bodies… Read the rest “Neither Chinese Chickens Nor Uighur Eggs.”
Canadian paleontologists have answered the old conundrum by closely studying a fossilized dinosaur nest:
… Read the rest “The Egg. The Egg Came First.”LiveScience.com, via Yahoo! News:
…[I]nterpreted literally, the answer
MSNBC recently reported on an unusual idea – that offshore wind farms would be not only good for creating clean energy, but they’d also boost fish populations:
… Read the rest “Of Wind and Fish.”Extracting
It sure sounds too good to be true, but New Scientist is talking about new UCLA research on astralagus, a plant that’s almost as widely used as ginseng in Traditional Chinese Medicine.… Read the rest “A Cure for Old Age. (And AIDS.) From Chinese Medicine…”
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University… Read the rest “Science Art: Io before Jupiter.”
OK, it’s a specific kind of rock:
… Read the rest “Rock Will Save The Planet”CleanTechnica.com:
Scientists at Columbia University have discovered that a rock found in the Middle East can be used to soak up carbon dioxide at
Seed contributor Jonah Lehrer posts to Scienceblogs about the brain-boosting effects of a stroll in the woods:
… Read the rest “Nature Deficit Disorder?”Because you can’t help but stop and notice the reddish orange twilight
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