The sound of a hundred shrugging epidemiologists.
New Scientist is being reassuring – sort of – when it declares that this swine flu pandemic business isn’t any kind of surprise: But in […]
New Scientist is being reassuring – sort of – when it declares that this swine flu pandemic business isn’t any kind of surprise: But in […]
The Colbert Report recently made science news over the space station naming controversy. Well, unbowed and unbloodied, the “right-wing” “pundit” once again “made the news” […]
You’d expect that meditation would improve your ability to remember things, I suppose. But this study mentioned in New Scientist shows that it really depends […]
Proteles cristata, the earth-wolf of southern Africaraman amplifier. He’s got a guilty look about him, doesn’t he? He knows what the other hyenas have been […]
SONG: “64 Actuators” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies”, IEEE Spectrum, 18 March 2009, […]
The FASEB Journal makes me uneasy with a new biochemical study. I’m beginning to worry that any minute now, government agents will be arresting my […]
Forget Hebrew, Latin and Old Norse – the Page F30 blog reports on folks out there working to bring back a really old language: That’s […]
The Telegraph, among other news sources, revels in my obsolescence. I am biologically and genetically surplus to needs. I am a man, and they’ve found […]
Happy 4/20, all you stoners. This is where rope comes from. And paper, and oil, and birdseed, and cheese, and fabric, and…. duuuuude. Image found […]
Scientific American raises the alarming prospect that, much quicker than anyone expected, bluefin tuna is going the way of the dodo: As European fishing fleets […]
LiveScience sullies our image of chimpanzees as noble, natural creatures with evidence that these apes practice prostitution: The primates’ food-for-sex barter occurs indirectly, over the […]
You might think flying is an impressive enough goal for any creature, but the Telegraph reveals new clues that dinosaurs may have evolved wings to […]
ScienceNOW is watching perceptual experts sketch out the first map of a strange sensory hinterland – the perceptual space that lies between what you see […]
Click to embiggen vastly A partially polished ammonite fossil. At one point in history, these guys ruled the world. A few million years ago, there […]
Oh, my. I may have to cover this. You get the picture. via Kung Fu Grippe.
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