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 the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery:
… Read the rest “If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.”[Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory W.] Sullivan’s report
Wired (suitably enough) gets all hepped up over traces of a prehistoric Starbucks in Cahokia:
… Read the rest “Caffeine Junkies of the Lost Metropolis”In a new study, researchers have found the first direct evidence of black drink — not in shells
Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness:
… Read the rest “Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.”The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants
The Bangkok Post unearths the forgotten past of the lush, humid Antarctic jungle:
… Read the rest “Antarctic rainforest ready to be reborn.”The study of sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off Antarctica’s east coast revealed fossil
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 Mars. GALE CRATER I … Read the rest “Curiosity is on Mars”
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, or even why a book on American animals has aardvarks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.”
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease:
… Read the rest “Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.”It found evidence that
The Creators Project is already turning attention from London to Rio, where Swiss engineers are planning to erect a giant, power-generating waterfall:
… Read the rest “Olympics 2016: powered by waterfall.”Designed by Swiss firm, RAAFA,
LiveScience looks at faint traces of deadly poisons that prove Paleolithic culture rose in Africa at the same time it did in Europe:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric poisoners push civilization’s start 20,000 years further back.”“Our research proves that the Later Stone Age emerged
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