Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911
This is a naked woman, as seen in 1911 by a German medical expert. The book’s title translates to “The Woman As Family Doctor,” and […]
Month: May 2015
Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.
Nature measures the price of poverty, and the effect it has on children. A bi-coastal study has found that poverty shrinks kids’ brains from birth: […]
An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.
Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme: It isn’t easy to […]
Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.
Science Daily reports on University of North Carolina research that shows transcranial stimulation, the fascinating new tech that uses mild DC current to “switch on” […]
Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.
Laboratory Equipment has sad news for those of us who like straight, simple, elegant communication. It appears that scientific articles with abstracts packed with (unnecessary […]
In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)
Science writer Leonard David is concerned. It seems like Mars Rover Curiosity is having some unusual wear on it wheels… erosion and corrosion that seems […]
Science Art: Lecture 2, Figure 5, from Lectures on Ventilation,
Click to embiggen from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review. The invisible made visible.
Pocahontas was married here. In this church.
Well, sort of. Popular Archaeology traces the efforts now underway to rebuild the Jamestown church where Pocahontas was married: About five years after the footprint […]