Dreams of sex and horror.
LiveScience pulls the cover back on another battle of the sexes with a study that shows men and women dream differently:
… Read the rest “Dreams of sex and horror.”Parker corroborated participants’ dreams with actual life
LiveScience pulls the cover back on another battle of the sexes with a study that shows men and women dream differently:
… Read the rest “Dreams of sex and horror.”Parker corroborated participants’ dreams with actual life
Wired’s Danger Room blog now has me imagining what it would be like to come under attack from a buzzing swarm of remote-controlled rhinoceros beetles:
… Read the rest “Cyber-insects taking off.”Researchers hooked a series
Not dinosaurs, but mammoths. I’d like to ride a mammoth. Wouldn’t you? New Scientist teases us with the possibility we can soon ride mammoths… or race glyptodons…… Read the rest “Pleistocence Park?”
PhysOrg reveals the high cost of gridlock. All that congestion blocks job growth as well as cars:
… Read the rest “Jammed.”A new UC Irvine study found that places with sluggish commutes – usually an indication
On Mars, the polar ice caps grow and shrink with the seasons, just like on Earth.
But unlike Earth, the Martian ice cap is made of CO2.
Image from the Electron Microscopy … Read the rest “Science Art: The Dry Frost of Mars.”
I’m blowing this month’s deadline in a big way, I think – moving out of my house this week. Many things in boxes. Phone & internet going down.
But the finished thing… Read the rest “Song delayed: penitential cover will be forthcoming.”
SciAm launches a new volley in the war on drugs – specifically an exotic plant known to some as “Psychotria.” On the street, it’s likely to be called “java”… Read the rest “The jitters. The voices. Freshen your cup?”
Tel Aviv researchers are revolutionizing urban design, PhysOrg.com reports, by designing cities for rats. Normally thought of as vermin, the critters can navigate the street plans to… Read the rest “The Rat-Planned City.”
NASA likes listening to space, because it’s kind of noisy up there. Somewhere in the background there are echoes of the Big Bang, and if we can decipher those, we’ll know a lot… Read the rest “Big Boom. Boom. Boom.”
Norwegian encyclopedists behold African artifacts.
And if you’d like to listen, it’s archived over yonder, or if you’d like to download, try this link here.
The excellently edited voice of your guildmaster appears at … Read the rest “The Guild was on the air.”
It’s hard to imagine the Mercury Seven swapping SuperPokes, but today’s space agency is a different kind of organization. Maybe.
You can find out yourself by checking out … Read the rest “Beyond the Twittering Phoenix.”
So I just back from recording a segment for In the Loop, a show from Minnesota Public Radio where it is now unspeakably cold.
We talked about science, not music, but hopefully managed to inspire… Read the rest “The Guild Is In The Loop.”
The BBC has a fun piece on the fellow most English speakers might not recognize, even though he’s the guy who invented the scientific method:
… Read the rest “The World’s First Scientist.”For, without doubt, another great physicist,
New Scientist uncorks the peculiar way passion affects our scents, by blanketing would-be competitors with the smell of love:
… Read the rest “Love is… a natural deodorant?”In a series of trials, each woman was asked to pick out their
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