This is a waterwork as the Industrial Revolution hit full swing.
It’s the final image in a book I’ve used here before, A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering:… Read the rest “Science Art: Turbines and Pumps, Manchester, 1882.”
SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert… Read the rest “SONG: Hyperfocus”
Science Alert carries news of a Korean research project that used AI to study images of the fundus, an area of the back of the eye, to successfully pinpoint patients with attention-deficit… Read the rest “ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.”
Science Daily reports on Duke researchers who have created a new class of painkiller that experiments show is as effective as opioids at eliminating pain from injuries and surgeries, but… Read the rest “Painkiller outsmarts opioids.”
“A kind of sawfly living on plum trees,” according to the Wikimedia Commons gallery of images from Nordisk familjebok. They’re considered a pest — the young … Read the rest “Science Art: Hoplocampa minuta, Plommonstekel Ugglan, 1920.”
SONG: “Bed Chem” (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover). (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This wasn’t based on any scientific research. It’s a … Read the rest “SONG: Bed Chem (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover)”
This is a poster snapped in my cardiologist’s (actually, electrophysiologist’s) office. These are all machines that are put into your heart to track its beating and alter… Read the rest “Science Art: Cardiac Devices, Medtronic”
Futurism reports on anecdotal evidence of ChatGPT conversing with people in a human-like way and … drawing them further and further into an authoritative-sounding, real-feeling… Read the rest “Growing worry over “ChatGPT-induced psychosis””
The Register reports on the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suddenly stepping down for “personal reasons”:
… Read the rest “NASA JPL boss quits”During the November 2024 staff cuts, Leshin
Physics Magazine takes a look at the radiation surrounding those high-energy stars that zoot-zoot-zoot out in regularly recurring intervals (stars with a pulse, in other words, like … Read the rest “Pulsars have an invisible halo”
On a fiberglass sailboat, “fairing” is a thin coat of epoxy meant to smooth out all tiny bumps and creases that sanding can’t catch in order to make the hull move through… Read the rest “Science Art: MRO Fairing Installation, 2005.”
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