Science Art: Tardigrade
Click to embiggen Is it cute? It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is […]
Month: September 2012
Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.
Once again, New Scientist delivers a headline I can’t beat. A statue the Nazis brought to Germany from Tibet has been found to have been […]
Physics Songs? What madness is this?
It’s at http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/… whatever it is! [via @vruba]
Tesla unveils the electric filling station.
Gigaom has the scoop on Tesla’s bid to change the face of America – by introducing a network of electric-car charging stations: Eectric car maker […]
Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.
A black-and-white birth sequence. From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”, by H. Bastian in […]
SONG: Particle
SONG: “Particle.” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi). SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s […]
The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.
Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk: he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system […]
The mere anticipation of an interaction with a woman can impair men’s cognitive performance.
No one can possibly do better than the Archives of Sexual Behavior in describing this study. The article’s headline says all it needs to: The […]
Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be
Me, I love science. New Scientist does too. So it makes us feel weird to point out that a lot of the time, it just […]
Demotic dictionary, for ancient expressions.
New York Times reviews a new dictionary of a really old language: Demotic was one of the three scripts inscribed on the Rosetta stone, along […]
Message in a bottle. From 98 years ago.
The Atlantic reports on a record-breaking experiment that is reaching a conclusion nearly a century after it started… when a Scottish fisherman found a message […]
Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.
That’s Homo heidelbergensis stopping for a quick sip of water, as imagined by Zdenek Burian. Zdenek Burian was possibly Eastern Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) […]
The mushrooms that make the weather.
Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds: The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water […]
Richard loves Richard, that is, I and I….
New Scientist may have uncovered the bones of Richard III, the king either most villainous or most misunderstood of Plantangenet: What exactly has been found? […]
They call Alzheimer’s “type-3 diabetes” – because it’s caused by junk food.
Guardian reports on the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer’s disease comes from what we eat – that the senility disease might actually be caused […]