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Month: November 2012

Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)

14 November 2012 grant 0

BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is messing up a perfectly neat theory about how the universe fits together:

Supersymmetry, or SUSY, has gained popularity as a way to explain some

… Read the rest “Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)”

Bizarre penis shaved by scientists

13 November 2012 grant 0

I can’t beat Science Nordic’s headline. They’re talking about some tragically vicious beetle anatomy:

The many spines on the penis are just as nasty, sharp and destructive

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Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.

12 November 2012 grant 0

UC Berkeley looks back to an old (and abandoned) method for making explosives and tweaks it to make renewable biofuels:

Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel

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Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927

11 November 2012 grant 0

We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm.

These are his aardvarks.

Earth-pigs.

After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally,… Read the rest “Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927”

Little things. Big pictures.

9 November 2012 grant 0

Nikon (through Wired) presents some of the most amazing windows onto the microscopic world ever seen:

Super-close-ups of garlic, snail fossils, stinging nettle, bat embryos, bone cancer

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Egyptian princess found. (Not alive.)

9 November 2012 grant 0

PhysOrg has the details on the latest royal presence in Cairo:

Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests

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Cold planet Mars.

6 November 2012 grant 0

Nature reveals a setback in the search for life on Mars. We’re learning more about the atmosphere there, and there doesn’t seem to be enough methane:

On Earth, life is responsible

… Read the rest “Cold planet Mars.”

SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)

5 November 2012 grant 0

SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. … Read the rest “SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)”

Science Art: Fig. 2, A detailed view of Earth’s magnetosphere… from Earth Orbital Science, Space in the Seventies by WR Corliss, 1971.

4 November 2012 grant 0

We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared.

found on archive.org (pdf).

Happy 12 years in space, ISS astronauts.

3 November 2012 grant 0

Mount Washington Valley Astronomy marks a dozen years of humans living in space:

On the 12th anniversary of crews continuously living and working aboard the International Space Station,

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12-year-old solves psych problem with Monster Manual.

3 November 2012 grant 0

Yep. It’s the beholder. Discover shows how a D&D-playing kid helped solve a longstanding problem with how humans react to eyes:

In 1998, [University of British Columbia psychologist

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