The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008:
… Read the rest “Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs”There is still a lot we do not know about the basics of energy systems dealing with photons,
A desert-dwelling fox of North Africa.
For Foxing Day.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here… Read the rest “Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International”
Bet your iPhone can’t do this…. UCLA scientists have found a way to rig an ordinary cell phone, an LED, a light filter and some wiring together, Wired reports, into a cheap and… Read the rest “Cell Phone Blood Scanner”
Here, something pretty for your Yule: How Luigi Colani designed the future.
From steam trains to flying boats.
Spacecraft like ginger flowers and orange… Read the rest “Future By Colani.”
SONG: “Isopods In My Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Antarctica Has More Species than Galapagos”… Read the rest “SONG: Isopods In My Aquarium.”
Sounds grim, but New Scientist says it’s true. The more intelligent soldiers were the most likely to die in combat:
… Read the rest “Smart Soldiers Die First.”The unprecedented demands of the second world war – fought more
This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing.
From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
New Scientist gives us a recipe for converting cheap wine to the good stuff:
… Read the rest “Electric Plonk.”It is backed by a decade of research, the results have been published in a peer-reviewed journal and the end product
We’re one step closer to living in a Flash Gordon serial, New Scientist reports, as engineers prepare to unleash a brilliant barrage of airborne death with fleets of flying lasers… Read the rest “Flying Lasers.”
Archaeologists found a surprise inside the severed skull of a man who lived in Britain before the Romans came. As PhysOrg reports, it had Britain’s oldest pickled brain inside:
… Read the rest “A 2,000-Year-Old Brain”The
Science Daily reveals the role the plucky, pesky herpes virus plays in the dreadful progress of Alzheimer’s disease – and how a cold sore cure might also beat back brain damage… Read the rest “Herpes and Alzheimer’s”
Yes, maybe these simple farm folk *do* have better hearts than the rest of us. That’s what the BBC seems to be saying about new research that finds the Amish are genetically protected… Read the rest “Mutant Amish Superhearts.”
Some organic geometry from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Antarctica, LiveScience reveals, isn’t the wasteland it appears. In fact, it has more species than the Galapagos Islands:
… Read the rest “Life On Ice.”A team of 23 scientists from five research institutes,
Science News reports on new findings that our intelligent neighbors to the sea have finally been spotted using tools:
… Read the rest “Dolphin Tools.”These dolphins dive to the bottom of deep channels and poke their sponge-covered
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