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Month: February 2015

Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…

8 February 2015 grant 0

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A bygone medical device, as preserved on the Public Domain Review’s selections from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry by Samuel Howard Monell, a 1910 treatise… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…”

Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color

7 February 2015 grant 0

CNTV reports on the discovery of Yuan Dynasty artwork – a trove of murals from the time when the Khans ruled:

The tomb was discovered last year when a heavy downpour washed away the top

… Read the rest “Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color”

Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.

6 February 2015 grant 0

Or, Live Science kinda sorta points out, it might not. But the thing sold as a “garden ornament” is certainly ancient and mysterious:

The hefty carving was up for sale as a garden

… Read the rest “Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.”

Driverless cars in less than a decade

4 February 2015 grant 0

That’s what Nature is expecting to see, in its overview of the world of autonomous vehicles:

This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, UK, in electric shuttles

… Read the rest “Driverless cars in less than a decade”

NASA preps for life-hunting mission to Europa

3 February 2015 grant 0

Discovery News gets all excited by NASA-JPL’s announcement that they’re budgeting for a robotic mission to seek life on Jupiter’s moon Europa:

In response to this

… Read the rest “NASA preps for life-hunting mission to Europa”

Don’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)

2 February 2015 grant 0

Popular Science looks at the hard facts behind decriminalization and legalization (two different things!) of marijuana – and what science says happens when cannabis consumption… Read the rest “Don’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)”

Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste

1 February 2015 grant 0

From Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste
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This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des corps organisés… Read the rest “Science Art: Uterus En Etat De Gestation by Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste”

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