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Month: August 2014

Antiperspirant makes you stinkier. In the long run.

12 August 2014 grant 0

Ain’t that modern life all over? Real Clear Science exposes the (potentially) stinky way antiperspirants alter your armpit bacteria:

While most of us might only concern ourselves

… Read the rest “Antiperspirant makes you stinkier. In the long run.”

Fine wines – a plummy finish, a hint of earthiness, and some sex-bending pseudohormones.

11 August 2014 grant 0

Science 2.0 has more on the discovery of lots of phthalates in fine European wines:

It isn’t just the booze itself, a group of scholars contends it’s the packaging. Phthalate

… Read the rest “Fine wines – a plummy finish, a hint of earthiness, and some sex-bending pseudohormones.”

Science Art: The Common Angler (Lophius piscatorus) (After W. Von Wright in Smitt), 1905.

10 August 2014 grant 0

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This is from the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections in the Biodiversity Library.

I bet there’s all *kinds* of things in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.… Read the rest “Science Art: The Common Angler (Lophius piscatorus) (After W. Von Wright in Smitt), 1905.”

My great-grandmother was stressed when she was pregnant AND IT FREAKS ME OUT!

8 August 2014 grant 0

Science Daily has yet more research on the heritability of stress, with research that shows the effects of stress on one pregnant mom can last four generations:

A first generation of rats

… Read the rest “My great-grandmother was stressed when she was pregnant AND IT FREAKS ME OUT!”

The next Mars Rover will make its own oxygen from CO2.

8 August 2014 grant 0

Scientific American reports on the technology that’ll help humans explore the Red Planet… first with fuel, then with air to breathe. The next machine to roll across Mars will… Read the rest “The next Mars Rover will make its own oxygen from CO2.”

Rosetta is orbiting a comet right now.

6 August 2014 grant 0

Orbiting a planet is not that big a deal – moons do it all the time. And everyone you’ve ever known has orbited a sun. Feh. But a comet? The little snowballs have their own weird … Read the rest “Rosetta is orbiting a comet right now.”

Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….

5 August 2014 grant 0

Nature offers one of the least comforting explanations for a mysterious hole in Siberia. It wasn’t from an asteroid or a rogue telephone-pole-installing crew. The 30-meter-wide… Read the rest “Mysterious crater explained. Not that it helps….”

The sleepless gene.

4 August 2014 grant 0

Science World Report takes a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed look at the mutation that makes some people chipper, functional early risers:

The researchers turned to 100 pairs of twins for this

… Read the rest “The sleepless gene.”

Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.

3 August 2014 grant 0


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From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org.

The book seems to be part of an 1850 re-printing… Read the rest “Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.”

The cool bedroom weight-loss plan.

1 August 2014 grant 0

VCU researchers have found a cool way to boost your body’s supply of (metabolism-raising) brown fat cells – by turning down your air conditioning:

Researchers found that

… Read the rest “The cool bedroom weight-loss plan.”

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