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Month: September 2017

GMO wheat is gluten free. (Hard choices, right?)

29 September 2017 grant 0

New Scientist reports with hope for celiac-disease sufferers on a new breed of wheat that’s genetically modified not to produce inflammation-causing gluten:

Gluten is the general

… Read the rest “GMO wheat is gluten free. (Hard choices, right?)”

Welcome, giant coconut rat. Nice to meet you!

28 September 2017 grant 0

National Geographic (after Nature) introduces us to a brand new mammal species – or new to us, anyway – that tumbled out of a tree in the Solomon Islands. This is the once-mythical,… Read the rest “Welcome, giant coconut rat. Nice to meet you!”

Science Art: Diagrammatic Figures of Cirroteuthis magna, drawn to a scale of about one-twentieth, 1886

24 September 2017 grant 0

From https://archive.org/details/reportoncephalop00hoyl Click to embiggen

Octopus geometry, from Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, by William Hoyle.

SONG: Around This Mystery

24 September 2017 grant 0

SONG: “Around This Mystery”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE:Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses,” Quartz, 17 Sep 2017, as used in the … Read the rest “SONG: Around This Mystery”

It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.

21 September 2017 grant 0

Science Daily struggles to define a strange thing the Hubble telescope found between Jupiter and Mars:

With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers

… Read the rest “It’s a comet. It’s an asteroid. It’s twins. It’s… weird.”

The social life of octopuses.

19 September 2017 grant 0

Quark goes deep to plumb the mysteries of the cephalopod city scientists have dubbed “Octlantis”:

In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15

… Read the rest “The social life of octopuses.”

The poop economy is flourishing.

18 September 2017 grant 0

Nature gets to the fundamentals of the filthy lucre we’re finding in filth:

The facility is called Pivot, and its founder is Ashley Muspratt, a sanitation engineer who lived in Ghana,

… Read the rest “The poop economy is flourishing.”

Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.

17 September 2017 grant 0

Chain Saw patent illustrationClick to embiggen

A patent for a device putting wood-cutting blades on a chain, so that people can cut down trees – or, in the wake of hurricanes, cut up ones that have fallen down.

Technically,… Read the rest “Science Art: Chain Saw, US 1655856 A, Jan. 10, 1928.”

Where the oceans are rising.

15 September 2017 grant 0

Nature gives us a much closer look not just at how much the ocean is rising, but where the levels will be changing most, using data from gravity-sensing satellites that show where ocean water… Read the rest “Where the oceans are rising.”

How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.

14 September 2017 grant 0

This isn’t new research, but a look back at some technological history most of us might not know. The Atlantic reminds us how a young Dan Rather put the first radar images of hurricanes… Read the rest “How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.”

Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.

5 September 2017 grant 0

Science Daily reports on Barnard College and Tomsk State University researchers who have looked at dogs looking at (and sniffing) themselves and found that, yep, there’s evidence… Read the rest “Dogs know themselves (as if we didn’t know that already). By their noses.”

Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.

4 September 2017 grant 0

The Triumph Lathe (https://archive.org/details/watchmakerjewe1318871lond)
Click to embiggen

It spins, you know.

This jewelry-making tool was once available from Messrs. H.J. Cooper & Company, on Oxford Street West.

I found it, or at least the magazine in which… Read the rest “Science Art: The Triumph Lathe, from The Watchmaker & Jeweller, Silversmith & Optician, Nov. 1, 1887.”

Dinosaur had four wings, yet could not fly.

1 September 2017 grant 0

National Geographic reveals the real-life parable of a dinosaur that, according to the evidence, had four wings, yet never flew:

The newly named species, Serikornis sungei, adds to the

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