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Month: September 2021

Facebook’s fake, troll-farm Christians.

30 September 2021 grant 0

MIT Review has one for the “strange days” file. An internal 2019 report leaked by a Facebook analyst found that 19 of the 20 most popular Christian groups on Facebook were actually… Read the rest “Facebook’s fake, troll-farm Christians.”

Scientific illustration of early headphones used as a circuit tester in the 1900s.

Science Art: Phone Tester for Electric Circuits, Patent No. 1,187,500; issued to G. B. Raymond.

26 September 2021 grant 0

These are not headphones, exactly. This is a thing made of telephone parts designed to help electrical tinkerers do better tinkering.

It’s from a page called “Latest Patents”… Read the rest “Science Art: Phone Tester for Electric Circuits, Patent No. 1,187,500; issued to G. B. Raymond.”

Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.

25 September 2021 grant 0

Science presents hard evidence that humans really were in North America at the time of the last Ice Age, along with giant sloths and glyptodonts:

Despite a plethora of archaeological research

… Read the rest “Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.”

SONG: I Chant

24 September 2021 grant 0

SONG: “I Chant”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Smithsonian, 23 Feb 2021, “Archaeologists in Egypt Discover Mummy With Gold Tongue,” as used in the post “Mummified… Read the rest “SONG: I Chant”

We might have just detected dark matter.

22 September 2021 grant 0

Science Daily goes deep beneath an Italian mountain range, where the XENON1T experiment got some strange results … that might give us humans our first handle on what dark energy is… Read the rest “We might have just detected dark matter.”

Scientific illustration of triops, a trilobite-like crustacean with three eyes.

Science Art: Triops longicaudatus, by Steve Jurvetson, 2005

19 September 2021 grant 0

This is a triops, a three-eyed critter something like a trilobite (though it’s not actually one of those at all). From the Wikimedia Commons description:

This relic from the Devonian

… Read the rest “Science Art: Triops longicaudatus, by Steve Jurvetson, 2005”

Robots are waiting tables in Texas.

17 September 2021 grant 0

CNN Business reveals that robots, having basically taken over manufacturing jobs, are now moving into service industry positions, replacing wait staff at a Latin restaurant in Dallas… Read the rest “Robots are waiting tables in Texas.”

Strange, ancient Scottish balls.

17 September 2021 grant 0

LiveScience (via ScienceAlert) is puzzling over two polished stone spheres found in a Neolithic site on the isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The stones resemble similar finds across Scandinavia… Read the rest “Strange, ancient Scottish balls.”

Drilling for magma.

16 September 2021 grant 0

Science reports on an Icelandic project going to a whole new level – they’re following the Krafla Volcano’s path and digging beyond the Earth’s crust into magma… Read the rest “Drilling for magma.”

Scientific illustration of bones on the inside, from a CT scan.

Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.

12 September 2021 grant 0

This is a picture of bones, the mineral density of bones, giving us a hint of their interior structures.

From the NIH Image Gallery description:

This image shows micro computed tomograophy

… Read the rest “Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.”

Wooden flooring that generates electricity.

10 September 2021 grant 0

The Guardian reports on Swiss scientists who have taken ordinary wood floor planks, coated them with silicon and embedded nanocrystals, and then stepped on them to generate enough electricity… Read the rest “Wooden flooring that generates electricity.”

Made-up sounds convey meaning across cultures.

9 September 2021 grant 0

Scientific American looks at babble and finds it comprehensible, thanks to language researchers who have learned that nonsense sounds imply the same concepts to listeners with different… Read the rest “Made-up sounds convey meaning across cultures.”

Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.

6 September 2021 grant 0

Smithsonian Magazine reveal the probable history of a mummy found in the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna who was preserved with a tongue-shaped amulet made of gold foil in their mouth… Read the rest “Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.”

Scientific illustration of a solar system being formed.

Science Art: Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris – Artist View, 2013.

5 September 2021 grant 0

This is a painting for NASA of the formation of a distant solar system, used to illustrate the article “Formation of the Solar System: Birth of Worlds.”

It’s showing … Read the rest “Science Art: Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris – Artist View, 2013.”

“Enteral ventilation” is a fancy way of saying “breathing through your butt.” Which we can maybe do.

3 September 2021 grant 0

Massive Science is celebrating nether regions this September, and kicked off their observances with a report on actual research at Tokyo Medical and Dental University that may someday… Read the rest ““Enteral ventilation” is a fancy way of saying “breathing through your butt.” Which we can maybe do.”

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