A 12,500-year-old statue is rewriting history. Or prehistory.
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 […]
Month: March 2021
Science Art: Owen Magnetic Radiator Emblem
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 […]
Cone snails trick their prey into thinking it’s time to get it on. Then they eat ’em.
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 […]
The key to staying fit when you’re less active is maintaining your intensity.
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 […]
Fake news is a symptom… of fast scrolling social media. (Not wishes, partisan thinking, or anything else.)
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 […]
SONG: Welcome to the Landing
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 […]
Science Art: A quarantine safeguards health…, 1936.
Click to embiggen This is how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body […]
A new Dead Sea Scroll… and even more ancient things.
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 […]
They resuscitated 100 million-year-old bacteria.
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 […]
To take a “D” off ADHD.
Scientific American puts forward an argument for renaming the neurological, psychological, something-ological condition that we currently call ADHD: The classificatory terms we use all refer […]
Science Art: Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’, NASA, 2021.
Click to embiggen NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. As they say on their […]
Mars rover sends “overwhelming” audio home. (And video and pics too.)
Science magazine celebrates an unusual media package – pictures, movies, and most of all sounds sent to Earth from the Mars Perseverance rover: But perhaps […]
New climate change weapon sucks CO2 straight out of the sky.
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 […]
Science Art: Persea: Taft, by Royal Charles Steadman, 1914.
Click to embiggen It’s an avocado, an aguacate, also known as an alligator pear in English and a “lawyer pear” in Dutch. This is a […]
Psych study: Microdosing really works. But so do placebos.
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 […]