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 suburban home […]
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: Details of […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Monkey and Robot go to Mars.
PopSci says the Russians are floating the idea of sending a monkey and robot to Mars. For real: Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks […]
SONG: Dear Winter.
SONG: “Dear Winter” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience (via Yahoo! News), 8 Dec 2009, […]
Why She’s Beautiful
LabSpaces measures out the mathematics of beautiful girls: Pamela Pallett and Stephen Link of UC San Diego and Kang Lee of the University of Toronto […]
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: “If you want people to branch […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: In some […]
DIY book scanner
Wired featured a wonderful piece of homemade cybernetics (and one that could subtly changing the world) – the homemade book scanner: For nearly two years, […]
Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!
Chasing the links for that Levitin interview yesterday, I found this call for volunteers in a musical experiment: MacCullum’s computer program creates a randomly generated […]
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 […]