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Month: January 2010

Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia

31 January 2010 grant b 0



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This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake Powell, formed by the damming of a river,… Read the rest “Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia”

A moment of silence for NASA?

29 January 2010 grant b 0

ScienceBlogs (and the Orlando Sentinel) are not sounding very pleased about Obama’s proposed budget for NASA:

As a final frying pan upside the head, you might require that NASA maintain

… Read the rest “A moment of silence for NASA?”

A GoST steampunk cameo.

29 January 2010 grant b 0

I’ve just received word that the Guild of Scientific Troubadours has a brief walk-in part in the latest novel being drafted by this fine author. It’s an early draft, so who knows… Read the rest “A GoST steampunk cameo.”

A moment of silence for Spirit.

28 January 2010 grant b 0

The Mars rover has been officially abandoned.

The Tech Herald:
However, although the Mars rover has now been written off in terms of fulfilling its core purpose of exploring the Red Planet’s

… Read the rest “A moment of silence for Spirit.”

Once, we were endangered.

26 January 2010 grant b 0

SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas:

[A]ccording to scientists from the University of Utah, about a million

… Read the rest “Once, we were endangered.”

Frame the deviance.

25 January 2010 grant b 0

Neurologists get Sonic Youth. That’s what I think after reading Jonah Lehrer’s ScienceBlogs entry about the way music works in the brain:

The experiment was more compelling.

… Read the rest “Frame the deviance.”

Science Art: Aus dem Schoenheitsalbum der Natur by Ernst Haeckel

24 January 2010 grant b 0

Ernst Haeckel, comparing natural forms for his “Beauty-album of Nature.” If you haven’t seen Proteus yet, you really should – as well as telling the story of … Read the rest “Science Art: Aus dem Schoenheitsalbum der Natur by Ernst Haeckel”

No song today…

24 January 2010 grant b 0

Between playing on Wednesday and moving into a new house, there hasn’t been any time for writing and recording – so the 23rd will go by without a new song.

It will arrive soon, … Read the rest “No song today…”

Sperm of a feather…

22 January 2010 grant b 0

NPR takes a look at the scrum that happens when sperm team up to reach their ultimate goal:

Fisher wondered whether sperm from two different male mice would cooperate indiscriminately or

… Read the rest “Sperm of a feather…”

Substitute blood.

21 January 2010 grant b 0

Perfect for androids or pacifist vampires… maybe. But Science Daily says artificial blood could save plenty of ordinary human lives:

The reason for this failure, according to Professor

… Read the rest “Substitute blood.”

Open Dinosaurs.

20 January 2010 grant b 1

You, yes YOU, dear reader, can be published as a paleontologist. That’s what Discovery News says about the Open Dinosaur Project, which is looking for a little bit of help from an awful… Read the rest “Open Dinosaurs.”

Tying light in knots

19 January 2010 grant b 0

Science Daily bends my head with their report on scientists who’ve tied lasers into knots:

Optical vortices can be created with holograms which direct the flow of light. In this work,

… Read the rest “Tying light in knots”

God, meet God… and this is God.

18 January 2010 grant b 0

This is not new science, but it’s certainly new to me. Over at the Mad Science Experiments site, there’s an article describing the meeting between the three men who thought … Read the rest “God, meet God… and this is God.”

Science Art: The U.S.S. Los Angeles moored on the U.S.S. Pakota, 1924

17 January 2010 grant b 0



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This is the US Navy’s airship Los Angeles, the most successful of America’s rigid-body airships, engaging in a maneuver that proved dirigibles like these… Read the rest “Science Art: The U.S.S. Los Angeles moored on the U.S.S. Pakota, 1924”

The “look at me” hormone.

16 January 2010 grant b 0

SciAm bursts the myth that testosterone is the source of male aggression. No, the truth is far worse. It’s the thing that turns men into hot doggers and showoffs:

To test the idea, the

… Read the rest “The “look at me” hormone.”

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