SONG: Hashtag Exclamation (#!%^)
SONG: “Hashtag Exclamation (#!%^)”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “‘Just give me the f***ing links!’—Cursing disables Google’s… Read the rest “SONG: Hashtag Exclamation (#!%^)”
Month: February 2025
Science Art: Lepiota Echinellus, 1887
You probably shouldn’t eat these.
This is an illustration of a Lepiota mushroom from the Bulletin de la Société botanique de France. The genus includes quite a few toxic species, … Read the rest “Science Art: Lepiota Echinellus, 1887”
So just how much life are we already spreading into space?
Mashable wants to know (along with NASA researchers) just what kind of critters are sticking to the International Space Station or surrounding it like an invisible cloud of living things… Read the rest “So just how much life are we already spreading into space?”
A vaccine against salmonella
Food Safety Magazine reports on University of Florida researchers who are closing in on a medicine that could prevent potentially lethal, antibiotic-resistant food poisoning …… Read the rest “A vaccine against salmonella”
Science Art: La Esperanza Del Río, Micrasterias Truncata, Turberas De Peñayerre
This is a star algae, Micrasterias truncata, as photographed very recently and uploaded to the Flickr Commons collection, “Encyclopedia of Life images.”
The description… Read the rest “Science Art: La Esperanza Del Río, Micrasterias Truncata, Turberas De Peñayerre”
NASA Mars rover spots “possibilities for microbial habitability.”
Mashable carries news from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has found traces that ancient ripples left on primordial lake beds, which prove that far from being an ice-covered badland,… Read the rest “NASA Mars rover spots “possibilities for microbial habitability.””
Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.
This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections.
It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t believe… Read the rest “Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.”
Whalesong is structured like a language.
Astrobiology reports on a cross-disciplinary study that has found that the song of humpback whales has the same distinct mathematical structure as a human language:
… Read the rest “Whalesong is structured like a language.”Humpback whale song
Women’s history found under immigrant asylum floorboards
Australia’s ABC reports on clues to a hidden past being found under the floor of a former immigration depot and women’s asylum, shedding new light on the lives of not-terribly-visible… Read the rest “Women’s history found under immigrant asylum floorboards”
So here’s *why* vaccines don’t cause autism.
We are at a point where this had to be published, but Stat has here gathered the actual data into one easy-to-read explainer for why we actually do really, truly know that vaccinations don’t… Read the rest “So here’s *why* vaccines don’t cause autism.”
Get better searches by swearing at Google.
How are we teaching the learning-machines to speak? Ars Technica reports on the discovery (or revelation, maybe) that it’s possible to do away with that infuriating, inaccurate… Read the rest “Get better searches by swearing at Google.”
Science Art: Cystoidea, by Ernst Haeckel
This is one of the plates from the 100 illustrations in Kunst-Formen der Natur, or “Art Forms in Nature,” by Ernst Haeckel, a scientist – or philosopher of science –… Read the rest “Science Art: Cystoidea, by Ernst Haeckel”