BBC News reveals the latest tactic in the war to make live electronica performances a little more of the moment: Have the musicians write their sound-making code on the fly:
… Read the rest “Scientists make music #2: Live coding.”Live coding has
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and lots of single-celled organisms multiplying… Read the rest “Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)”
Well, this seems a little misguided – or maybe absolutely brilliant – but a psychological researcher (and guitarist) has created the ideal David Bowie song. Scientifically… Read the rest ““The Laughing Gnome” isn’t enough, I guess.”
Surgeons are readying their Frankenstein-style electrodes, NBC says, in preparation for building new blood vessels with the power (and shape) of lightning:
… Read the rest “Electricity in my veins.”The artificial organs begin
PhysOrg brightens up the future of health care with the healing power of art:
… Read the rest “Art for health.”Nanda, who has a doctorate in architecture with a specialization in health-care systems and design, says scientific
Discovery brings up the grim possibility that we’re all doomed to die in an invisible toxic wave:
… Read the rest “Deadly plastic ocean.”Patterns in ocean currents create conglomerations of swirling trash that have received
Scientific American resets my priorities (or at least my metaphors) with anthropological research. You think in order to walk, you gotta crawl first? Not really:
… Read the rest “Walk, don’t crawl.”According to anthropologist
SONG: “Close Your Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Scary music is spookier with eyes shut “, … Read the rest “Song: Close Your Eyes”
A gorgeous vintage diagram of NASA’s deep space probe’s trajectory.
The NASA image archive page says:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Pioneer F/G Jupiter Missions, 1970.”This image, drawn in 1970, is an artist’s rendering
The Telegraph provides insight into the genuine pain of a broken heart:
… Read the rest “By definition, a crush must hurt…”Psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles say the human body has a gene which connects physical
Reuters carries the story of the first seed of life to be discovered on a comet:
… Read the rest “We found the seeds.”The latest findings add credence to the notion that extraterrestrial objects such as meteorites and comets
New York Times brings up the unsettling possibility that future biochemically savvy crooks will be capable of fudging DNA evidence:
… Read the rest “DNA evidence, made to order.”The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples
Science Daily is hard boiled. As hard boiled as death. And death, they say, has a smell all its own:
… Read the rest “Smell of death.”Speaking at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they said
The Times somewhat recently took a close look at our brains, particularly the parts that UC San Diego neurologists say are responsible for what we call “wisdom” rather than… Read the rest “Exposing the Seat of Wisdom.”
These are the volumes of the hand, Babelfish tells me… although “baender” also means “bands” (like the FM radio band), or ligaments.
Image found in Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Baender der Hand, Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, 1932”
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