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Month: October 2013

Science Art: Holocentre à grosses épines, from Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Volume 3, 1828

13 October 2013 grant 0

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A Holocentrus hastatum, or Sargocentron hastatus, or red soldier fish. They have big spines, you see.

This one comes from A Natural History of Fish, by Georges Cuvier and M. Valenciennes,… Read the rest “Science Art: Holocentre à grosses épines, from Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Volume 3, 1828”

Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)

11 October 2013 grant 0

Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, that… Read the rest “Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)”

Cave artists mostly feminine.

10 October 2013 grant 0

National Geographic looks into the caves and reports on the earliest artists’ small, beautiful hands:

Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand

… Read the rest “Cave artists mostly feminine.”

After the Ice Age, the farmers came

9 October 2013 grant 0

Sweden’s The Local rewrites history with a pre-Viking farm that they’re calling “shocking”:

“It is completely unique,” Jan Heinerud at Västerbotten’s

… Read the rest “After the Ice Age, the farmers came”

Save the (10-foot-long, venomous) snakes!

8 October 2013 grant 0

BBC discusses the challenges faced by Rodrigo Souza, a man who’s dedicated himself to saving an endangered species – the lethal, heat-seeking venomous snake called the Atlantic… Read the rest “Save the (10-foot-long, venomous) snakes!”

This beer has the moon in it.

7 October 2013 grant 0

No, not quoting that classical sot Li Bai, but the (mostly) sober-minded folks at Outside, who are now celebrating Dogfish Head’s latest special beer… made with moon dust … Read the rest “This beer has the moon in it.”

Science Art: Broca’s Area (Brodmann’s Area 44 & 45) by Amunts K, Lenzen M, Friederici AD, Schleicher A, Morosan P, et al.

6 October 2013 grant 0

Brocas_Region

Why is this brain area important? I have no words.

Found on Wikimedia Commons.

Reality TV colonizes space.

4 October 2013 grant 0

Yep. Virgin Galactic has announced that it’s sending a reality TV show contestant into space while cameras roll:

“Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition series

… Read the rest “Reality TV colonizes space.”

A Super-Earth (with Plasma Water Skies).

3 October 2013 grant 0

Space.com reveals the weirdness of water – neither ice, nor liquid, nor vapor – found on a faraway planet:

Astronomers have determined that the atmosphere of super-Earth

… Read the rest “A Super-Earth (with Plasma Water Skies).”

Mind-controlled robot leg. An actual one. Not made up.

2 October 2013 grant 0

Nature has the details on the bionic limb wired to an amputee’s nerves:

A 32-year-old man whose knee and lower leg were amputated in 2009 after a motorcycle accident is apparently

… Read the rest “Mind-controlled robot leg. An actual one. Not made up.”

Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.

1 October 2013 grant 0

Says it all right there. You want to see inside the world’s largest particle accelerator? Street View will take you into the underground tunnels:

We’re delighted that CERN opened

… Read the rest “Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.”

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