Chemistry crafts: crystals!
This isn’t actually a discovery. It’s something you can do at home. All you need is bismuth, a pot and a stove and you can […]
Month: February 2009
Barreleye, I can see inside your head.
If they could do this with cats, a million TV watchers would pay $1,000 each. MSNBC reports on a fish with a see-through head: The […]
Waterproof sand brings promise of new life.
PhysOrg, ready for a day on the beach, reports that nanotech engineers have created waterproof sand. They expect to use it to make the world’s […]
SONG: Mama Never Taught Me
SONG: “Mama Never Taught Me” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Can experiences be passed on to offspring? “, New […]
Relax. We’ll clean those memories right out.
WebMD, usually a reassuring site filled with comforting medical knowledge, shares the recent finding that a common blood pressure drug is not actually erasing our […]
Science Art: Exploration Imagery: S88-29653, the Project Pathfinder Autonomous Lander
Click to embiggen vastly This was what space was going to be in 1988. All acrylic paints and spindly legs. You can read more about […]
Teach ’em young. If not earlier.
New Scientist educates us about a new study suggesting that pregnant moms’ mental workouts can affect their unborn kids’ brains: Larry Feig at Tufts University […]
Green up your office, green out your lungs.
Pogue’s Posts‘ recent look at the latest TED talks underlines one particular presentation that seems pretty interesting. It’s by a fellow named Kamal Meattle who’s […]
You’re made of cotton candy.
Or at least you can be, if MSNBC and the Soft Matter journal are to be believed. They’re publishing research that shows how cotton candy […]
SONG: Army Ants (penitential Tom Waits cover)
SONG: “Army Ants”, originally by Tom Waits [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Tom Waits. SOURCE: This is another […]
Return of the Supercollider
The SpaceMarauder blog is looking forward to some singular explosions down here on Earth, thanks to the news that the Large Hadron Collider is back […]
Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the […]
Clear typefaces make life easier.
SciAm clears up a secret of success that font-freaks already know instinctively. If we’re really going to get things done, you’ve got to tell it […]
The Vertical Farm
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page […]
Snowballs and Killer Whales
Researchers studying the McMurdo Sound killer whales may have started something among the orcas: LiveScience, via Yahoo:One of the whales, probably an adult female, was […]