If you’re one of history’s greatest electrical inventors, it is only suitable to have stationery that’s equal to your stature.
The central image is of the unfinished… Read the rest “Science Art: Nikola Tesla’s Letterhead”
UC Berkley has me hankering for some shut-eye… for my brain’s sake:
… Read the rest “The wise nap.”In the recent UC Berkeley sleep study, 39 healthy young adults were divided into two groups — nap and no-nap.
NPR has introduced me to the Medea Principle; just as the Gaia Principle states that a planet can be thought of as a single living organism, this idea states that the single biggest threat … Read the rest “Life is dangerous.”
SONG: “Staring” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: “Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye,” LiveScience , … Read the rest “SONG: Staring”
The Wall Street Journal reveals the lengths to which modern corporations go to make hot soup seem even homier:
… Read the rest “Hypno-Soup!”Campbell began dissecting its condensed-soup marketing that summer, around
This is the plant that produces those memory-enhancing extracts you see in the health food aisle of the drug store – the one that long-lived Chinese monks reputedly tended for thousands… Read the rest “Science Art: Gingko bilobe, Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, 1886 – 1891”
New Scientist takes a closer look at the squiggly bits around some famous cave paintings – shapes that might just be some of the world’s oldest written messages:
… Read the rest “Eldest alphabet.”While some
So Science Daily says – and they don’t seem to be making this up – that scientists are stopping malaria by transplanting mosquitoes’ noses into frog eggs and fruit… Read the rest “Mosquito nose transplants.”
Science News reports on the hottest, heaviest science ever to come out of a research lab:
… Read the rest “Hot, Heavy Matter.”Talk about hot and heavy. Scientists have taken the temperature of a minuscule glob of dense, hot
Another William Miller illustration – this time, a simple flower study in color.
Odd how spending a few moments looking at this Erigeron alpinum leaves me feeling just as mortal as… Read the rest “Science Art: (Loddiges 590) Erigeron alpinum by W. Miller”
SONG: “My Girlfriend’s a Robot” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: This is a penitential… Read the rest “SONG: My Girlfriend’s a Robot (penitential cover)”
The Telegraph hails the promise of herds of elephant-sized cattle returning to Europe’s plains:
… Read the rest “Auroch returns.”Now Italian scientists are hoping to use genetic expertise and selective breeding
Discover tells me the “nerd syndrome” (or whatever we’re calling it in today’s papers) is no longer listed in the DSM, the “Bible of Psychiatry.”… Read the rest “Farewell, Asperger’s!”
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