Science Art: Reptile Skeletons and Skulls, from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1835
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*. This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in […]
Month: August 2012
If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery: [Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory […]
Caffeine Junkies of the Lost Metropolis
Wired (suitably enough) gets all hepped up over traces of a prehistoric Starbucks in Cahokia: In a new study, researchers have found the first direct […]
Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.
Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness: The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants with an […]
Antarctic rainforest ready to be reborn.
The Bangkok Post unearths the forgotten past of the lush, humid Antarctic jungle: The study of sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off Antarctica’s […]
Curiosity is on Mars
The rovers don’t seem to have the same way with words that Neil Armstrong did. From Curiosity’s twitter feed: “I’m safely on the surface of […]
Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.
A contented sloth peers out of the pages of St. George Mivart’s American Varieties of Animal Life. I have no idea who the artist is, […]
Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease: It found evidence […]
Olympics 2016: powered by waterfall.
The Creators Project is already turning attention from London to Rio, where Swiss engineers are planning to erect a giant, power-generating waterfall: Designed by Swiss […]
Prehistoric poisoners push civilization’s start 20,000 years further back.
LiveScience looks at faint traces of deadly poisons that prove Paleolithic culture rose in Africa at the same time it did in Europe: “Our research […]