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 it’s pretty much a home health… Read the rest “Science Art: From Die Frau als Hausärztin by Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, 1911”
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:
… Read the rest “Poverty shrinks kids’ brains.”…A team led by neuroscientists
Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme:
… Read the rest “An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.”It isn’t easy to decipher what the runes say and the
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” parts… Read the rest “Using tDCS – mild electric jolts to stimulate your brain – actually hurts your IQ score.”
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 and obfuscatory)… Read the rest “Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.”
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 to be caused by liquid water… Read the rest “In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)”
from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds, via Public Domain Review.
The invisible made visible.
Well, sort of. Popular Archaeology traces the efforts now underway to rebuild the Jamestown church where Pocahontas was married:
… Read the rest “Pocahontas was married here. In this church.”About five years after the footprint of the first Jamestown
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