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Month: November 2010

Too clean, too sensitive.

30 November 2010 grant b 0

Metro.co.uk brings us yet another report on the problems with cleanliness:

The modern trend for using antibacterial soaps is actually harming young people by making them more prone to

… Read the rest “Too clean, too sensitive.”

Saturn’s friendly moon.

29 November 2010 grant b 0

Pack up your things! Discover reports that the Cassini Saturn probe has found an oxygen atmosphere around Rhea:

Other atmospheres known to exist throughout the solar system, like that

… Read the rest “Saturn’s friendly moon.”

Science Art: The Geologic Time Spiral, by Joseph Graham, William Newman, and John Stacy.

28 November 2010 grant b 0

History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral.

Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the concept.)

Thanksgiving Theremin: Pamelia Kurstin, TED talk/concert, 2002

25 November 2010 grant b 0


She starts with “Autumn Leaves” and goes on from there – just about 20 minutes of playing and talking enthusing.

More on the effervescent Ms Kurstin at TED and beyond… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Pamelia Kurstin, TED talk/concert, 2002”

SONG: Beyond the Ends of the Earth

23 November 2010 grant b 0

SONG: “Beyond the Ends of the Earth”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “100 Year Starship: Nasa’s … Read the rest “SONG: Beyond the Ends of the Earth”

Squid can fly.

22 November 2010 grant b 0

I am not making that up. Treehugger.com has the photographic evidence of flying squid:

“From our observations it seemed like squid engaged in behaviors to prolong their flight,”

… Read the rest “Squid can fly.”

Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696

21 November 2010 grant b 0



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I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could.

A relatively benign merman complete with scales caught in the Baltic

… Read the rest “Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696”

Hurt so good.

19 November 2010 grant b 0

Yes. Well. New Scientist’s never-so-aptly-named “Short Sharp Science” blog revels in the discovery that the female orgasm is neurologically linked to pain:

To get

… Read the rest “Hurt so good.”

Inject stem cells into damaged brain. Wait.

18 November 2010 grant b 0

That’s a rough outline of what The Telegraph says scientists are doing in what could wind up being a dramatic medical breakthrough:

The study, Pilot Investigation of Stem Cells in

… Read the rest “Inject stem cells into damaged brain. Wait.”

Reading names, forgetting faces.

17 November 2010 grant b 0

Forget your eyes. New Scientist (have I seen them somewhere before?) says all that reading is bad for your memory:

The scans firstly confirmed which regions of the brain are associated with

… Read the rest “Reading names, forgetting faces.”

Sleights of Mind

16 November 2010 grant b 0

This is more of a “heads up” than highlighting any particular discovery, but Medical News Today has a review of a fascinating collaboration between neuroscientists and stage… Read the rest “Sleights of Mind”

Mutant mosquitoes fight “breakbone fever.”

15 November 2010 grant b 0

The Miami Herald reports on a new front line in a genetic war against insect-borne disease:

Researchers at Oxitec Limited, an Oxford-based company, created sterile male mosquitoes by

… Read the rest “Mutant mosquitoes fight “breakbone fever.””

Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder

14 November 2010 grant b 0



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This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be hollow – possibly… Read the rest “Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder”

Bubbles in the Milky Way

12 November 2010 grant b 0

NASA astronomers have found the equivalent of a lost continent in space – a pair of colossal radioactive bubbles rising from the galaxy:

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

… Read the rest “Bubbles in the Milky Way”

Hawking Q&A

10 November 2010 grant b 0

Time has a vox-pop interview with professional smartypants Stephen Hawking:

Does it feel like a huge responsibility to have people expecting you to have all the answers to life’s

… Read the rest “Hawking Q&A”

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