Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966
A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning […]
Month: August 2025
“Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.
The Planetary Science Institute reports on what space missions have learned from studying a strange, sinuous series of formations on the surface of Mars that […]
Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT
Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI. From the image description on Wikimedia Commons: ChatGPT […]
SONG: Jet Lagged
SONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal jet lag’, study finds,” University of Sydney, 16 July 2025, […]
Our cannibal grandparents
PhysOrg shares evidence that Neolithic humans — the farmers of the Stone Age — were a lot more into eating each other than previously thought: […]
The covid pandemic rewired teens’ brains
I mean, parents already kinda know this, but now Translational Psychiatry has studied (and is continuing to study) a group of teens from before the […]
Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .
The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking one down there on the bottom left). There […]
DNA reveals Africans in medieval England.
Anthropology.net looks at two 7th-century graves from different parts of England — Kent and Dorset — that prove African-descended people were living in England practically […]
Sea star killer found. Now what?
bioGraphic celebrates the discovery, at long last, of the phenomenon behind a mysterious wave of rather horrific sea star deaths on America’s Pacific Coast. Now, […]
Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon
These are some of the first goldfish ever seen in Europe. The image (which I found in a great Public Domain Review article) came from […]
Depression is a form of jet lag.
Or maybe vice versa. At any rate, the University of Sydney has published findings that demonstrate depression is physiologically really close to jet lag, and […]
Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.
A photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s collection of Images from NASA/Cape Canaveral. Here are a couple of quotes from a recent […]