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Month: September 2011

Science moves overseas.

30 September 2011 grant b 0

That’s the gist of this somewhat mournful piece in The Economist regarding America shuttering its largest particle accelerator:

It already looks likely that the successor to the

… Read the rest “Science moves overseas.”

Psychedelic science spreads.

28 September 2011 grant b 0

Salon covers the state of play in the burgeoning movement to use psychedelic drugs as medicine:

“It was absolutely incredible,” remembers Kossut. “The first rush

… Read the rest “Psychedelic science spreads.”

DIY dinosaur. (A chicken comes first.)

28 September 2011 grant b 0

Then, Wired tells us, comes a dinosaur egg. At least that’s one paleontological plan to flip the genetic switches separating “chicken” from “dinosaur”… Read the rest “DIY dinosaur. (A chicken comes first.)”

Angry fish.

27 September 2011 grant b 0

Yeah, not birds. Discovery News writer Jennifer Viegas unveils the most bitter of best friends is likely to be the humble goldfish:

A new study has found that ornamental fish across the U.S.

… Read the rest “Angry fish.”

Science Art: n238_w1150 (Plate XCV:Opisthoteuthis VERRILL) from The Cephalopoda, ed. by Carl Chun, c. 1915

25 September 2011 grant b 0


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Octopus up-skirts. For science.

The provenance of this picture is a little hard to sum up easily:
* I found it on a blog…
* that reposted it from a Smithsonian Institute… Read the rest “Science Art: n238_w1150 (Plate XCV:Opisthoteuthis VERRILL) from The Cephalopoda, ed. by Carl Chun, c. 1915”

SONG: Turn Me Inside Out

23 September 2011 grant b 0

SONG: “Turn Me Inside Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Gut instinct: Tantalising evidence… Read the rest “SONG: Turn Me Inside Out”

(Needs confirmation) Light-speed barrier broken?

22 September 2011 grant b 0

AP is reporting that CERN has made a beam of sub-atomic particles travel faster than the speed of light:

University of Maryland physics department chairman Drew Baden called it “a

… Read the rest “(Needs confirmation) Light-speed barrier broken?”

Whole Foods’ Mind Control

22 September 2011 grant b 0

Fast Company reveals the tricks of the trade. Literally. Supermarket giants are using subliminal suggestion and misdirection just like master magicians:

For example, sales records

… Read the rest “Whole Foods’ Mind Control”

Outside the box isn’t easy.

21 September 2011 grant b 0

In fact, PhysOrg says, new solutions to old problems tend to turn people off. The more creative the solution, the harder it is to sell:

The paper [co-authored by Jack Goncalo, ILR School assistant

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A Higgs boson walks into a cathedral…

20 September 2011 grant b 0

No, really. A religion and science joke.

A Higgs boson walks into St. Patrick’s Cathedral on a fine Sunday morning. The monsignor looks up and reacts angrily, “Get thee behind… Read the rest “A Higgs boson walks into a cathedral…”

Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).

20 September 2011 grant b 0

Science comes a step closer to figuring out the neurology of key – or how it is that we instinctively know what sounds good:

Bernardo Spagnolo, a biophysicist at the University of Palermo

… Read the rest “Sweet sounds (and the neurology thereof).”

Teenage brains.

19 September 2011 grant b 0

A friend of mine who taught middle school called it “hormone poisoning.” But National Geographic takes a slightly more serious look at why adolescents do the things they do… Read the rest “Teenage brains.”

Science Art: False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact, by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft

18 September 2011 grant b 0


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Right now, as I write these words, the spacecraft Dawn is circling around the asteroid Vesta, trying to figure out how it got there.

This is a “false-color”… Read the rest “Science Art: False-Color Image Shows Proof of an Impact, by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft”

Gut attraction.

16 September 2011 grant b 0

National Geographic looks at a new social network that matches “friends” based on their intestinal bacteria:

MyMicrobes, which opened to the public last week is looking

… Read the rest “Gut attraction.”

What’d you say?

15 September 2011 grant b 0

Science Daily pipes up with news that Berkeley scientists might have just cured the non-stop ringing of tinnitus:

“This work is the most clearheaded documentation to this point

… Read the rest “What’d you say?”

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