Parrot names.
Wired brings us another step closer to talking with the animals, thanks to research showing that mama parrots give their babies names: Before a green-rumped […]
Month: August 2011
Long-distance loves have tall kids.
Live Science discusses a strange bit of statistics – showing that the farther apart you and your mate are from, the taller your offspring will […]
SONG: The Shape of Your Words
SONG: “The Shape of Your Words.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Kiki or bouba? In search of language’s […]
Science Art: Walross (Brochus)… (detail), by St. Schillinger, 1833-1841
A walrus! A walrus! Seen inside and out in Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, written by Lorenz Oken. I can’t find anything out about the […]
Flowing water on Mars.
Not ice. Science Magazine shares some images of what they’re calling “the salty tears of Mars”: Using the most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars, […]
The birds and, uhhh….
Scientific American reveals the emotional life of bees. Yes, insects do have emotional lives: Recently, studies by Geraldine Wright and her colleagues at Newcastle University […]
The Twitter trenches
Time reveals more of the Pentagon’s social media warfare research: The new Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program was submitted under the Defense Advanced […]
Cleaning the world’s plate.
A new U.N. report (over at Scientific American) shows we’re actually wasting 300 million Hummer H2s’ weight of food every year: What is more interesting […]
Goblin holes!
Der Spiegel probes the long-buried secrets of the Erdstalls – Bavaria’s ancient underground mazes: At least 700 of these chambers have been found in Bavaria […]