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Month: August 2023

From plastic trash into sudsy cleansers.

30 August 2023 grant 0

Science News reports on a system for “upcycling” plastic trash by converting the non-recycled waste destined for the landfill into surfactants, the chemicals that make … Read the rest “From plastic trash into sudsy cleansers.”

Scientific illustration in the form of a dramatic black and white photograph of a highly reflective sphere in the middle of a vast hangar lit by horizontal rows of lights so long, they seem to radiate out from a point of convergence somewhere behind the inflatable spacecraft.

Science Art: ECHO 100′ Satellite Inflation Tests, 1958.

28 August 2023 grant 0

A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.

I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.

SONG: FAQs

23 August 2023 grant 0

SONG: “FAQs”. (available as .wav here)

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SOURCE: Based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books,”… Read the rest “SONG: FAQs”

Scientific illustration of a planet illuminated (or perhaps formed) by a circle of orbital lights, shining down in many colors; an illustration of computer networking in a pre-internet age.

Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972

21 August 2023 grant 0

This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org.

Stories inside include ways to project different-sized letters on a cathode-ray screen,… Read the rest “Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972”

ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition

16 August 2023 grant 0

Popular Science discusses a school board in Iowa using ChatGPT to itemize the books that should be removed from library shelves because they ‘contain a description or depiction … Read the rest “ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition”

Wanna watch the watchers?

15 August 2023 grant 0

The Markup is making an offer to anyone with a Facebook account – even an inactive one. Previously, they mapped out how the Meta Pixel (formerly the Facebook Pixel) gathered people’s… Read the rest “Wanna watch the watchers?”

Scientific illustration of an electronic component, a photograph of a transistor enlarged.

Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf

13 August 2023 grant 0

This is a tiny component in an amplifier, seen way up close.

If you want the specifics, from the Wikimedia Commons page where I found it:

45V, 0.03A 300mW 3-Pin TO-18

The 2N930 is designed for

… Read the rest “Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf”

Human coronavirus meds cure deadly cat disease.

11 August 2023 grant 0

The Guardian reports from Cyprus, where an antiviral medicine for human COVID-19 patients has proved effective against a deadly outbreak of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease… Read the rest “Human coronavirus meds cure deadly cat disease.”

There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)

11 August 2023 grant 0

Eurosurveillance reports on an ongoing epidemic that has seen a contagious strain of avian influenza, HPAI H5N1, jump from birds to mammals, where it’s spread from wild seagulls… Read the rest “There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)”

Scientific illustration of a baby lobster, Homerus americanus, with all its tiny feets and swimmerets, isn't it just the CUTEST!

Science Art: The First Larva, or the first free-swimming stage of the lobster, 1895.

7 August 2023 grant 0

Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Twinkle loudly, little star

4 August 2023 grant 0

Science Daily has the story of a research team at Northwestern University that has determined the way any particular star should twinkle – which is a phenomenon based in part on how… Read the rest “Twinkle loudly, little star”

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