Batteries for solar homes.
Over at VentureBeat’s “GreenBeat” section, they’ve got a profile of a promising new Panasonic project, building batteries powerful enough to run your average… Read the rest “Batteries for solar homes.”
Month: December 2009
One tool, two brain functions.
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery (using old tools) of a single brain protein that does two very different things to help us think:
… Read the rest “One tool, two brain functions.”Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec. 24
Born in Black Holes
The World of Weird Things blog has a pretty cool look at the part played by big black holes in the origins of the universe:
… Read the rest “Born in Black Holes”So this nearly 3,000 kilometer wide brute would be one of the last things
Cosmic songs.
Science Line doesn’t care if you’re not supposed to be able to hear spaceship engines go “whooosh” – they say we’re actually being quietly bombarded… Read the rest “Cosmic songs.”
Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.
William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything that… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.”
Monkey and Robot go to Mars.
PopSci says the Russians are floating the idea of sending a monkey and robot to Mars. For real:
… Read the rest “Monkey and Robot go to Mars.”Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks with the [Institute of Experimental
SONG: Dear Winter.
SONG: “Dear Winter” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience… Read the rest “SONG: Dear Winter.”
Why She’s Beautiful
LabSpaces measures out the mathematics of beautiful girls:
… Read the rest “Why She’s Beautiful”Pamela Pallett and Stephen Link of UC San Diego and Kang Lee of the University of Toronto tested the existence of an ideal facial
Better science = less limits + longer time.
MIT economists are weighing in on the science of creativity in a search for the source of big ideas:
… Read the rest “Better science = less limits + longer time.”“If you want people to branch out in new directions, then it’s important to provide for their
Science Art: The Known Universe by AMNH
The American Museum of Natural History revisits “Cosmic Zoom”, starting at the Himalayas and moving outward (and, as far as we can see, backwards in time – through older… Read the rest “Science Art: The Known Universe by AMNH”
Skin sense
Yeah, so did you know your skin can hear? And that, LiveScience says, isn’t all. There’s also some kind of subtle sense that operates through our sweat glands:
… Read the rest “Skin sense”“Curiously,
Blue whale basso is really profundo.
Discovery gets deep in its musing about a cetacean mystery. The songs of the blue whale have been getting progressively lower in pitch:
… Read the rest “Blue whale basso is really profundo.”In some cases, the pitch of their songs has dropped
DIY book scanner
Wired featured a wonderful piece of homemade cybernetics (and one that could subtly changing the world) – the homemade book scanner:
… Read the rest “DIY book scanner”For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of
Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!
Chasing the links for that Levitin interview yesterday, I found this call for volunteers in a musical experiment:
… Read the rest “Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!”MacCullum’s computer program creates a randomly generated pair
The Brain in the Studio
Unlike all of the other selections cut-n-pasted here, this one I typed in by hand; that’s how much I wanted to share it. It’s from Tape Op, the free audio recordists’ magazine… Read the rest “The Brain in the Studio”