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Month: April 2010

Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770

11 April 2010 grant b 0



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Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock rifles.

As well as studying… Read the rest “Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770”

“WHAT did you just pick up?”

9 April 2010 grant b 0

BBC shares the cute story of the discovery of what could be our greatest grandparents, the oldest members of the genus Homo:

The site was found by the team thanks to the “virtual globe”

… Read the rest ““WHAT did you just pick up?””

Friendlier dragons.

8 April 2010 grant b 0

Explorers in the Philippines have, New Scientist reports, just discovered a cousin of the fearsome Komodo dragon that eats fruit:

Measuring 2 metres long, Varanus bitatawa is covered

… Read the rest “Friendlier dragons.”

Lizard-brain learning.

7 April 2010 grant b 0

Science Daily gets primitive with research into how the oldest parts of our brains help us learn:

Many of the mundane skills that we apply every day, such as buttoning up a shirt or playing

… Read the rest “Lizard-brain learning.”

Breasts save lives. And money.

6 April 2010 grant b 0

No, really. The IT Wire covers a new Pediatrics study that breastfeeding could save 911 lives and billions of dollars annually:

…[T]he paper in the journal Pediatrics states, “The

… Read the rest “Breasts save lives. And money.”

Comets made us icy.

5 April 2010 grant b 0

Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze:

Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each

… Read the rest “Comets made us icy.”

Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux

4 April 2010 grant b 0



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I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 celebration of technological… Read the rest “Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux”

Tiny cube tidies orbit.

2 April 2010 grant b 0

BBC reports on a new invention – a cube that releases a sheet of plastic to clean up space junk:

Residual air molecules still present in the spacecraft’s low-Earth orbit will

… Read the rest “Tiny cube tidies orbit.”

Magnets and morality

1 April 2010 grant b 0

Medical News Today makes me feel uncomfortable… oh, no, wait, it’s a GOOD thing!… about the way magnets can alter our moral judgement:

Ten years ago [Dr Rebecca Saxe,

… Read the rest “Magnets and morality”

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