Nature cuts my last potential for productivity to the quick with news that researchers have made mouse sperm in a dish:
… Read the rest “So we’ve made sperm. No man necessary.”Researchers in China say that they have discovered a way to make rudimentary
I don’t have the math language to explain what’s going on here very well. It’s a diagram of the Rastrigin function, which is, ahem, “a typical… Read the rest “Science Art: Contour plot of Rastrigin’s function in two variables, by Tos”
NPR’s Skunk Bear turns us on (in general, but specifically with this) observing the outsized influence of unanticipated consequences – singling out for awards all the times… Read the rest “Celebrating happy accidents with The Golden Mole”
SONG: “Janssen.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists just analyzed the atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ for the first time,” Washington Post, 16 Feb.… Read the rest “SONG: Janssen”
Nature reveals a new generation of Milgram experiments – the 50-year-old psychological tests that had subjects electrocute (or believe they were electrocuting) other people … Read the rest “Modern Milgram Experiments: plumbing the horror of only following orders”
Such a winning smile….
Neopteroplax was, at one point, something like a crocodile of salamanders – an amphibian about 3 meters long (that’s nigh onto… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 4, Neopteroplax conemaughensis, 1963”
Science Daily talks about our ancient brothers, the Neanderthals who were us, 100,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “Modern humans and Neanderthals go back further together than we thought.”Today in Nature the team publishes evidence of interbreeding that occurred an estimated
Washington Post unveils our first observations of the atmosphere on an Earth-like planet outside the solar system:
… Read the rest “Alien atmospheres”For the first time ever, scientists are sniffing out the secrets of a
Discovery News hypes the headline a little here (but forgivably) by declaring that a 45-million-year-old prehistoric coffee has been discovered preserved in amber:
… Read the rest “Coffee (and pepper) of the dinosaurs discovered.”Named Strychnos
BBC News covers the preventative medicines that act like statins for your brain:
… Read the rest “A new generation of anti-Alzheimer’s drugs”Statins are taken by people to reduce the risk of developing heart disease and the Cambridge research team
This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in 1894.
Reaching for the stars,… Read the rest “Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.”
I’m reading a EurekAlert report on entomologists sitting ringside watching the fastest boxers in the world – trap-jaw ants:
… Read the rest “*Ants* have the speed… when it comes to boxing.”In a new study, entomologists at the University
Nature reports on the outgoing president’s attempt to boost research & development funding by a mandatory four percent:
… Read the rest “Obama tries to boost science funding on his way out.”With less than a year before he leaves office, US President
Wired reports on the successful ignition of a fire three times hotter than the sun:
… Read the rest “Chinese tokamak makes fusion happen – for more than a minute.”The march to sustainable nuclear fusion appears to have made serious progress, after a Chinese research
SONG: “Heavy In My Head.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Anxiety can impact people’s walking direction,” Science Daily, 19 Jan. 2016, as used in the… Read the rest “SONG: Heavy In My Head”
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