This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race.
This is an image of promise. There is a better tomorrow out there in the void. … Read the rest “Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965”
Does this sound schmaltzy? Usually things with a full choir and a key change after the bridge sound schmaltzy. I honestly can’t tell – judgement just flew right out the window.… Read the rest ““I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?)” by Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, Barenaked Ladies & The Wexford Gleeks”
No, he’s not doing *that* on the ISS. The commander is, like The Postal Service, making music via a long-distance collaboration… only his is with the earthbound Ed Robertson… Read the rest “Commander Hadfield gets together with Barenaked Lady.”
Harvard researcher Ted Kaptchuk is mastering the medical secrets of sleight-of-mind by figuring out how to use placebos as real medicine:
… Read the rest “Real fake medicine isn’t really fake. It’s real. But how real?”Last year, he and colleagues from several Harvard-affiliated
Time is dibsing front-row seats to the (potentially) big show when a black hole slurps down a gas cloud this fall:
… Read the rest “Black hole, light show.”Back in 2011, astronomers spotted an interstellar gas cloud plunging more
Sounds unnatural or absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s what the internet is making possible, according to Nature (whose publishers should be a little worried). Researchers … Read the rest “Journals without publishers.”
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going… Read the rest “Science Art: Appareil Electromedical de G. Trouvet, from La Nature, 1878”
That’s what Science Daily says scientists have been doing when they hook up a probe precise enough to detect a single idea begin to form in a specific brain cell:
… Read the rest “Watching the thoughts of fishes.”“Our work is
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