The Guild of Scientific Troubadours

The Guild of Scientific Troubadours

ex scientia, sono

  • Home
  • Join the Guild
  • The Scientific Troubadour Pledge
  • The SONGS

Month: August 2010

Look who’s running the asylum.

31 August 2010 grant b 0

And, in fact, the whole discipline of psychology. National Post exposes the sad truth that industrialized, post-Enlightenment Westerners are weird:

The article, titled “The

… Read the rest “Look who’s running the asylum.”

Homegrown eyes.

30 August 2010 grant b 0

Medical Daily is dishing up a bright new recipe for making biological corneas from scratch:

More than a decade ago, Dr. Griffith and her colleagues began developing biosynthetic corneas

… Read the rest “Homegrown eyes.”

Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820

29 August 2010 grant b 0



Click to embiggen

Image of Victorian-era coastal survey equipment found in the NOAA Photo Library.

The equipment belonged to the artist’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant and West… Read the rest “Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820”

Dry water.

27 August 2010 grant b 0

No, not ice, but, as the Telegraph explains it, a form of water that just isn’t wet:

Each particle of dry water contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy silica coating. In fact,

… Read the rest “Dry water.”

Unselfish? Don’t expect us to *like* it.

26 August 2010 grant b 0

Science Daily explores an ugly side of human nature. Research shows that groups don’t like good guys among them:

Four separate studies led by a Washington State University social

… Read the rest “Unselfish? Don’t expect us to *like* it.”

Pee-pee power.

24 August 2010 grant b 0

I went there. No, really, I went there. The BBC reports on the way chemists will use urine as fuel:

Dr Tao said: “Growing up in rural eastern China I was aware of the use of urea as an agricultural

… Read the rest “Pee-pee power.”

SONG: Rising Like the Sun

23 August 2010 grant b 0

SONG: “Rising Like the Sun”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Antidepressants in water cause shrimps… Read the rest “SONG: Rising Like the Sun”

Science Art: Triceratops-Eotriceratops size 02, by Conty.

22 August 2010 grant b 0



Click to embiggen

Image from Wikimedia Commons, where it soon might be deleted for making the Eotriceratops too large.

They always seem to put the people at the wrong end.

Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!

20 August 2010 grant b 0

Science Daily assures us these shocking, primordial monsters are very real:

“This leaf shows clear signs of one well documented form of zombie-parasite, a fungus which infects

… Read the rest “Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!”

Take a hike, kid.

19 August 2010 grant b 0

G’wan. Get out of here. No, you don’t need me to hold your hand. The Guardian says you should go outside and play!

[A] growing body of evidence is starting to show that it’s

… Read the rest “Take a hike, kid.”

Look happy, feel happy.

18 August 2010 grant b 0

It’s not just about paralyzing your face to make you look younger. Not too long ago, Indiana University revealed that Botox really does make people happier:

Here’s David Havas,

… Read the rest “Look happy, feel happy.”

Before there was DNA….

17 August 2010 grant b 0

That’s what’s still going inside this food-poisoning bacteria, according to Science Daily. Its genetic material is so ancient, it’s older than genes as we know them… Read the rest “Before there was DNA….”

Destination Venus.

16 August 2010 grant b 0

Or, as Discovery News puts it, RETURN TO HELL:

We have a lot of unanswered questions about Venus that warrant a return surface visit. Venus might have once had oceans and even incubated life.

… Read the rest “Destination Venus.”

Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.

15 August 2010 grant b 0



Click to embiggen

This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not marine biologists – but scientists… Read the rest “Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.”

Fall of antibiotics

13 August 2010 grant b 0

Break out the garlic and sulfur compounds. The Guardian’s predicting the end of antibiotics in as soon as 10 years:

Hyperbole? Unfortunately not. The highly serious journal Lancet

… Read the rest “Fall of antibiotics”

Posts pagination

1 2 »

Follow on Bandcamp

Something to Believe In

GRANT: something to believe in

You could write a review of this album here on iTunes.

That would be generous.

Fellow Travelers

  • 314.Action
  • Bioephemera
  • Breakfast in the Ruins
  • Carabus
  • Discover
  • Fluxblog
  • Giant-Killer
  • grant (archive)
  • grant (bandcamp)
  • Hello, Poindexter!
  • ideonexus
  • junior kitchen
  • Keep Your Pebbles
  • LiveScience
  • Mindless Ones
  • Nature
  • New Scientist
  • NIMBioS: Science Songwriters-in-Residence
  • Peculiar Velocity
  • PhysOrg
  • Science Daily
  • Science Magazine
  • Science News
  • Science Writers Daily
  • Scientific American
  • Singing Science Records
  • Songfight!
  • Space.com
  • Stereo Sanctity
  • The Great Beyond
  • The Other Adam Ford
  • The Periodic Table of Poetry
  • Voyages Extraordinaires

Tags

acoustics aeronautics agronomy anatomy anthropology archaeology astronomy biochemistry biology botany chemistry climatology computer science ecology economics electrical engineering electronics engineering entomology epidemiology evolution genetics geology linguistics marine biology mathematics medicine meteorology microbiology microscopy nanotechnology neurology oceanography optics paleontology pharmacology physics psychology quantum physics research robotics sociology space exploration theremin zoology
RSS Help Wanted: ScienceCareers
  • Cornell University: Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Quantitative Biology and Data Science, Baker Institute
  • Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg - Faculty of Medicine: University Professorship for Virology (salary grade W3 or salary grade W2 (with tenure track to W3))
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Department of Materials Science and Engineering - Open Rank Faculty Search
  • Lamb MediaWorks Recruitment: Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Microbial Therapeutics
  • The Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto: Associate Professor - Aging, Senescence, and Tissue Regeneration
RSS Help Wanted: Indeed Scientist
Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
Related Projects
  • Squid Pro Crow
  • Grant Bandcamp
  • Grant Soundcloud
  • Penitential Originals Playlist
https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/01-gravity-song.mp3

 
"Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?"
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, 1851
Tools
  • Subscribe via Email
     
  • View as PDF (via FiveFingers)
     
  • Is Facebook Electric?
     
  •   Yes, yes, we RSS!

     
Fields of Inquiry
  • Cold Storage
  • Featured
  • Guild Affairs
  • Music
    • Songs
      • Penitential Covers
  • Science
    • Science Art

Copyright © 2025 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes