Mouthless worm stranger than previously thought. Oh. OK.
Wired has a lovely story about a charismatic creature that has no mouth, lives inside dead whale bones and is part of a very complicated […]
Month: November 2009
Look at you. Up close.
Pharyngula passes on a very interesting offer: I had my doubts about this; I got an offer from ASPEX corporation to let people get free […]
Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.
Discovery News has me imagining the text of a classified ad in the ARCHAEOLOGY – PRE-CHRISTIAN section…. Found: Persian army. Lots of mileage, but well-preserved: […]
Ethiopia’s other coast.
New Scientist is ready to weigh anchor in the Sahara, now that it looks like Ethiopia is getting its very own brand new ocean: “The […]
Another LHC baguatelle.
Yeah, so the LHC really, really can’t catch a break. Not only are bizarre electrical failures, Al Qaeda operatives and time travelers out to get […]
Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.
Click to embiggen This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of […]
Look up, TV people.
New Scientist points out an unexpected sunny side of the recent switch to digital broadcasting: it’s suddenly a lot easier for radio telescopes to see […]
Germ markets.
Wall Street financiers have more in common with bacteria than you might expect (ahem), PhysOrg reports, based on a new study that shows how microbes […]
Scandal On The Beach! Extortion! Sex!
New Scientist tells the SHOCKING UNTOLD STORY of the steamy, sordid sex lives of fiddler crabs: Males have one giant claw, sometimes as heavy as […]
Science Machine!
The Onion reveals where science comes from. We *knew* it, didn’t we?
T. rex: Just a big puppy?
The Telegraph reveals new fossil evidence that one of history’s scariest dinosaurs engaged in play-fights: Geologist Dr Joe Peterson, of Northern Illinois University, said: “Jane […]
Junk food, junk mood.
BBC reports on new data supporting a link between highly processed food and depression: [The University College London team] split the participants into two types […]
Science Art: Nomenclature and Operation (Norden Bombsight, Mar 1945)
Click to embiggen The Norden Bombsight, from the Bombardier’s Information File (BIF) describing the components and controls. If you’ve read Slaughterhouse 5 or seen the […]