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Month: April 2011

Science Art: Imagining Mars, NASA-JPL, 1975

10 April 2011 grant b 0


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This is what an artist in 1975 (or perhaps three artists) thought the future of Mars looked like.

From the NASA-JPL description:

“Life on Mars” was envisioned

… Read the rest “Science Art: Imagining Mars, NASA-JPL, 1975”

Davy Jones’ shipping containers.

8 April 2011 grant b 0

You might have heard the phrase “acceptable losses” being tossed around in corporate contexts, but Singularity Hub’s taken a closer look at a shipping phenomenon … Read the rest “Davy Jones’ shipping containers.”

Go find Genghis Khan. Yes, YOU.

7 April 2011 grant b 0

Washington Post extends an invitation to you – and to everyone else – to search for the tomb of the Mongol emperor:

Through a Web site called Field Expedition Mongolia, which

… Read the rest “Go find Genghis Khan. Yes, YOU.”

Mangroves save us. (If we save them.)

6 April 2011 grant b 0

Nature reports on a hidden side of wetlands conservation, with the discovery that those snorkel-rooted mangrove trees – which are getting pretty scarce most places – are … Read the rest “Mangroves save us. (If we save them.)”

First-person dream shooters.

5 April 2011 grant b 0

Live Science reports on the nightmare-killing dreams of the hardcore gamer:

By contrast, soldiers who did not play video games much suffered from more emotional distress and a frozen sense

… Read the rest “First-person dream shooters.”

The jug or the loaf?

4 April 2011 grant b 0

“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” is a question for paleontologists. Anthropologists ask a much more vexing question about bread and beer – it’s all… Read the rest “The jug or the loaf?”

Science Art: Esbene, by Samuel de Champlain, c. 1602

3 April 2011 grant b 0

Esbene, Samuel de Champlain, c.1602

Image from the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, who found it in Brief discours des choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage á reconneues aux Indes occidentales… Read the rest “Science Art: Esbene, by Samuel de Champlain, c. 1602”

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