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Month: December 2016

Bats have more to say than you think.

30 December 2016 grant 0

Nature delves into the surprising intricacies of bat language:

Bats are noisy creatures, especially in their crowded caves, where they make calls to their neighbours. “If you go into a

… Read the rest “Bats have more to say than you think.”

10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….

28 December 2016 grant 0

Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the highway:

Uber, the technology company (which,

… Read the rest “10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….”

Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.

26 December 2016 grant 0

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A spruce tree, for the second day of Christmas.

From Dr. Prof. Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, in Wort und Bild, fuer Schule und Haus… Read the rest “Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.”

SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”

24 December 2016 grant 0

SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer… Read the rest “SONG: “Tiny Reindeer””

World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.

23 December 2016 grant 0

The Guardian reports on a rational, logical approach to making the big bucks… by evaluating trades (and making hiring and firing decisions) using a custom-built computer rather… Read the rest “World’s largest hedge fund set to replace management with supercomputer.”

“The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.

21 December 2016 grant 0

BBC unveils how exactly our brains are able to turn the garbled sounds of a crowded room into understandable speech:

A team measured people’s brain activity as the words of a previously

… Read the rest ““The Cocktail Party Effect” noise filter is revealed at last.”

Female doctors’ patients live longer.

20 December 2016 grant 0

Heard this odd bit of medical science on Marketplace this morning. A new study of 1.5 million patients found that those treated by doctors who were women have a 5-percent better chance of … Read the rest “Female doctors’ patients live longer.”

SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”

19 December 2016 grant 0

SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”.

ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison).

SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s… Read the rest “SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)””

Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941

18 December 2016 grant 0

Bulldog and bassethound, from The genetic and endocrinic basis for differences in form and behavior : as elucidated by studies of contrasted pure-line dog breeds and their hybrids

My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do.

This is what these breeds (pretty “over-bred” breeds) look… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941”

Sauna for your mental health.

17 December 2016 grant 0

Science Daily goes for a schvitz and a think with the University of Finland, where researchers have found that frequent sauna visits protect men against dementia:

The effects of sauna bathing

… Read the rest “Sauna for your mental health.”

Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.

15 December 2016 grant 0

Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have lost an average of 12% of their… Read the rest “Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.”

Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.

13 December 2016 grant 0

Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey:

As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding landscape, archaeologists from Southampton,

… Read the rest “Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.”

Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.

12 December 2016 grant 0

BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, and where the melted water… Read the rest “Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.”

Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962

12 December 2016 grant 0

John Glenn and Dolores O'Hara, Mercury-Atlas 6
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Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, just before the Mercury-Atlas… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962”

70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.

8 December 2016 grant 0

Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields of the least-understood… Read the rest “70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.”

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