Science Art: IMAGE_7222, EarthKAM Spring 2010 Mission.
Click to embiggen This is what a chunk of Northwest Australia looks like from the International Space Station. It was created as part of the […]
Month: October 2010
Rover Spirit: Down, but still discovering.
Last year, the Mars Rover Spirit got stuck in the dirt and NASA couldn’t get it out. But today, it still manages to deliver. Under […]
Drill, ba… oh, wait. Never mind.
CNN shares the latest US Geological Survey estimate of Alaska’s oil reserve. It’s a breathtaking 90 percent smaller than previously believed: The group estimates about […]
Coffee balloon hands.
Yeah, that headline sounds kind of dada, doesn’t it? But it’s exactly what The Register is describing as the latest Pentagon robotics breakthrough: The manipulator […]
Comic Sans is… *good* for you.
Font fans, run in fear. BBC is reporting on new research that finds the Helveticats and Arialites have it all wrong. If you really want […]
Science Art: Shovel-fish & spoonbill sturgeon by the Brothers Dalziel
Click to embiggen This is a pile of unusual fish from The illustrated natural history, vol. 3, by John George Wood, London, circa 1863. The […]
SONG: Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)
SONG: “Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)” [Download] . (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “36 million-year-old penguin […]
Eyes beneath the ice.
Have I been posting more about Antarctica than usual lately? Doesn’t matter. Check out the astronomical project the Telegraph is looking into deep under the […]
Malarial evolution.
Scientific American notices that the mosquitoes that carry malaria seem to be splitting off into their own species: “We can see that mosquitoes are evolving […]
On the sublime significance of a load of whale crap.
The marine biology-watchers at CBS would like to remind us of one of our planet’s under-appreciated treasures: A new study suggests that whale excrement plays […]
Ghostly fish of the dead zone.
The Telegraph dives four and a half miles into a vast undersea dead zone… and surfaces with a ghostly new species of fish: The new […]
Science Art: Bell X-1A In Flight (aviation anniversary tribute 2)
On October 14, 1947, “stick and rudder man” Chuck Yeager proved that you didn’t dissolve, explode or travel through time if you went faster than […]
Science Art: Wellman’s Airship America (aviation anniversary tribute 1)
On October 18, 1910, a team of… well, what would we call them? They take machines and go through the air like birds, so let’s […]
Toward animal spirituality.
Whether or not you think a “soul” is a neurological phenomenon or something else, you might wonder, along with Discovery News, what it really means […]
Etsy partners with NASA. Gives away prizes.
You’ve been reading these updates for some time, so of course you know of my deep and profound love for bringing scientific research and homemade […]