Science Art: Colour Wheel by Moses Harris, c.1770
Click to embiggen Moses Harris was an entomologist in Britain at about the time the American colonies started that unpleasantness with tea stamps and flintlock […]
Month: April 2010
“WHAT did you just pick up?”
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 […]
Friendlier dragons.
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 […]
Lizard-brain learning.
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 […]
Breasts save lives. And money.
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 […]
Comets made us icy.
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 […]
Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux
Click to embiggen I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 […]
Tiny cube tidies orbit.
BBC reports on a new invention – a cube that releases a sheet of plastic to clean up space junk: Residual air molecules still present […]
Magnets and morality
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 […]