The New York Times examines the Shigir Idol, a wooden statue from the Ural Mountains that defied decay to become the oldest known work of ritual art:
… Read the rest “A 12,500-year-old statue is rewriting history. Or prehistory.”Dug out of a peat bog by gold miners in 1890,
From 1915 to 1922, this was the symbol of electric luxury – or at least a hybrid-electric luxury car. The Owen Magnetic label was a celebrated icon of the finer things, and the electric… Read the rest “Science Art: Owen Magnetic Radiator Emblem”
Science News shares a nightmare scenario from the ocean. The lights are low, there’s slow music playing, and look, there’s someone sexy over by the bar who doesn’t seem… Read the rest “Cone snails trick their prey into thinking it’s time to get it on. Then they eat ’em.”
Outside takes a hard, scientific look at our pandemic year (and our softening middle sections) using a measure called “VO2,” which is a way of tracking how aerobically fit … Read the rest “The key to staying fit when you’re less active is maintaining your intensity.”
Scientific American broadcasts a study (by David Rand and Gordon Pennycook, published in Nature) that looked at why misinformation spreads online, and found that it isn’t because… Read the rest “Fake news is a symptom… of fast scrolling social media. (Not wishes, partisan thinking, or anything else.)”
SONG: “Welcome to the Landing”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on NASA, 5 Mar 2021, Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing'”, as used in the Science Art post “Welcome… Read the rest “SONG: Welcome to the Landing”
This is how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body and Health: Grade Six by … Read the rest “Science Art: A quarantine safeguards health…, 1936.”
NPR reports that archaeologists working in caves on the shores of the Dead Sea have found, for the first time in 60 years, another fragmentary parchment dating back to the time of the Christ,… Read the rest “A new Dead Sea Scroll… and even more ancient things.”
Scientific American reports on new evidence that bacteria may be “effectively immortal” after researchers brought back microbes that settled to the ocean floor tens of … Read the rest “They resuscitated 100 million-year-old bacteria.”
Scientific American puts forward an argument for renaming the neurological, psychological, something-ological condition that we currently call ADHD:
… Read the rest “To take a “D” off ADHD.”The classificatory terms we
NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler.
As they say on their Image Gallery site:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’, NASA, 2021.”The landing location is marked
Science magazine celebrates an unusual media package – pictures, movies, and most of all sounds sent to Earth from the Mars Perseverance rover:
… Read the rest “Mars rover sends “overwhelming” audio home. (And video and pics too.)”But perhaps even more thrilling,
Scientific American reports on some scientific Canadians who have tackled the carbon-offset problem – there’s too much CO2 trapping heat in the atmosphere – in the… Read the rest “New climate change weapon sucks CO2 straight out of the sky.”
It’s an avocado, an aguacate, also known as an alligator pear in English and a “lawyer pear” in Dutch. This is a Taft variety, an ancestor of the Lula … Read the rest “Science Art: Persea: Taft, by Royal Charles Steadman, 1914.”
Science shares a study that found microdoses of psychedelic mushrooms really do work to boost creativity and create feelings of well-being… but so did inert placebo doses:
… Read the rest “Psych study: Microdosing really works. But so do placebos.”Placebo-controlled
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