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Month: September 2009

Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977

13 September 2009 grant b 0



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A still life from the NASA Great Images collection.

This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the outer reaches of the solar system, then become a machine consciousness… Read the rest “Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977”

Human see. Chimps do.

11 September 2009 grant b 0

We’ve been watching chimpanzee’s faces. Why not? They can be funny to look at, often, and they can help us understand how we communicate emotions and why we do what we see.

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… Read the rest “Human see. Chimps do.”

How do geckos drop their tails?

10 September 2009 grant b 0

ABC Science (the Australian network, not the American one) is taking a long look at lizards – specifically, the medical information we can get from geckos’ wriggling tails… Read the rest “How do geckos drop their tails?”

Affordable solar? Hair’s the ticket.

9 September 2009 grant b 0

OK, sorry for that headline. Ahem. But here! There are these two kids in Nepal who figured out how to make solar energy a heck of a lot cheaper to harness:

Milan Karki and Harihar Adhikari, have

… Read the rest “Affordable solar? Hair’s the ticket.”

Reclaiming forgotten power.

8 September 2009 grant b 1

I just had an enjoyable email exchange with a friend who asked me about something he’d been wondering. (These are generally the best kinds of email exchanges to have.) He’d … Read the rest “Reclaiming forgotten power.”

Terror from the farm.

7 September 2009 grant b 0

Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave of antibiotic terror… Read the rest “Terror from the farm.”

Science Art: Discoaster surculus.

6 September 2009 grant b 0



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This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 and making future … Read the rest “Science Art: Discoaster surculus.”

Welcome back to the territory, TMBG.

3 September 2009 grant b 0

The association between songs about science and songs for kids is never entirely broken, I guess, since both endeavors are supposedly educational. So it’s just as well that They … Read the rest “Welcome back to the territory, TMBG.”

Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.

2 September 2009 grant b 0

The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink:

“It is difficult to imagine how you can have something as soft

… Read the rest “Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.”

The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.

1 September 2009 grant b 0

Scientists are not just getting into creating music, InsideScience informs me. They’ve also figured out the magic of finance:

A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute

… Read the rest “The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.”

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