Washing away.
Slate (yeah, not the first place I look for science news, but hey) unearths the sad truth about beaches that aren’t going to be beaches much longer:
… Read the rest “Washing away.”[Jim] Titus, the Environmental
Month: April 2010
Fast glider goes… ooops.
So, you’d think this’d be bigger news, but I heard about it on the Geeky Gadgets blog. (That’s its actual name.) DARPA, the military research organization lost one of… Read the rest “Fast glider goes… ooops.”
Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000
This is the Florida Everglades, the widest, slowest river in the world. Anything that grows in South Florida does so because of fresh water from here – from cypress… Read the rest “Science Art: Florida Everglades, Landsat satellite, 2000”
Go figure.
Fittingly enough, I posted that put-sugar-in-my-Coke song on the anniversary of New Coke’s introduction.
Funny.
SONG: Mexican Coke.
SONG: “Mexican Coke” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that … Read the rest “SONG: Mexican Coke.”
…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.
New Scientist reopens that old, old scandal between we modern humans and our sexy, sexy Neanderthal cousins:
… Read the rest “…but the kind with a club that belongs to him.”Instead, a team led by Jeffrey Long, at the University of New Mexico, found evidence
Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO
What, you think that Christmas cracker in Iceland was something? This was last week’s real eruption:
This prominence is 500,000 miles long. That’s a stream of plasma 62 and… Read the rest “Science Art: Huge Solar Prominence Eruption, NASA STEREO”
Turn on.
New York Times has yet another report on new breakthroughs in using psychedelic drugs to heal:
… Read the rest “Turn on.”“All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating,” he recalled. “Imagine you fall
What was I saying about whales?
BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them:
… Read the rest “What was I saying about whales?”A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it was identical to meat from a sei whale being
Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.
Another gorgeous old book illustration from Old Book Illustrations, this one from a Belgian natural history text. It’s a beached sperm whale, Physalus cylindricus… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Physale Cylindrique, Histoire naturelle de Lacépède, 1876.”
Making pavement pay.
Covered this as a concept before here, but PhysOrg is reporting that a town in France is making step-powered pavement a reality:
… Read the rest “Making pavement pay.”Authorities in Toulouse in the south-west of France are considering
Obama brings back Orion capsule.
Discovery News makes me curious, again, about the future of American space travel:
… Read the rest “Obama brings back Orion capsule.”President Obama is reviving the capsule component of the scuttled Constellation program and setting
An older testament.
The Vancouver Sun unearths the story of a possible Assyrian source for the Hebrew covenant:
… Read the rest “An older testament.”The tablet, dating to about 670 BC, is a treaty between the powerful Assyrian king and his weaker
Sushi superpowers.
New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion:
… Read the rest “Sushi superpowers.”Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each
SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)
SONG: “Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Robyn Hitchcock.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s… Read the rest “SONG: Aquarium (penitential Robyn Hitchcock cover)”