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Science Art: Denisova Phalanx distalis

26 March 2017 grant 0

Replica of a Denisovan finger bone fragment, originally found in Denisova Cave in 2008, at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium.

A finger-bone from the other archaic humans – besides Neanderthals, there were Denisovans. And one of the fragments we know them from looked like this, found in a cave in what’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Denisova Phalanx distalis”

SONG: The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)

23 March 2017 grant 0

SONG: “The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon).”

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE:The quest to crystallize time,” Nature, 8 Mar 2017, as used in the post “
‘It’s
… Read the rest “SONG: The Ring I Made For You (A Time-Crystal Canon)”

America stopped breeding orcas; China just started.

21 March 2017 grant 0

National Geographic reports on China’s boom in marine parks, including a new program to breed killer whales in captivity:

The Chimelong Group, one of the country’s biggest amusement

… Read the rest “America stopped breeding orcas; China just started.”

Scale-shedding gecko a nasty mouthful for predators

20 March 2017 grant 0

Science News reveals the unappetizing trick of a newly discovered gecko species. The lizard sheds its large scales to wriggle out of predators’ mouths:

All species of Geckolepis

… Read the rest “Scale-shedding gecko a nasty mouthful for predators”

Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964

19 March 2017 grant 0

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This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space program twice … Read the rest “Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964”

Our noses were shaped by the climate.

17 March 2017 grant 0

Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses:

“We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation

… Read the rest “Our noses were shaped by the climate.”

Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.

15 March 2017 grant 0

PhysOrg reports on the discovery that sharks aren’t quite the “lone wolves of the sea” that they seem. In fact, sharks form social networks and share strategies to avoid… Read the rest “Sharks are teaming up to outwit us.”

Volunteers are healthier. (They also tend to be richer.)

13 March 2017 grant 0

Science Daily finds that those who give back also seem to be getting back – because people who volunteer for causes are in better health than the rest of us:

Researchers of Ghent University

… Read the rest “Volunteers are healthier. (They also tend to be richer.)”

Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.

12 March 2017 grant 0

A train! From https://archive.org/details/MasterBuildersOfSteam
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A train! A big ol’ train!

This image is one of many found in H.A.V. Bulleid’s Master Builders of Steam, a book about those big ol’ engines moving big ol’… Read the rest “Science Art: Longitudinal Section of “Star” Class Four-Cylinder 4-6-0, by AJ Creswell, 1963.”

Our brains are 10 times busier than we thought.

10 March 2017 grant 0

Science Daily takes time out to think about our thinking parts, which are doing 10 times more thinking than we previously thought:

The research focused on the structure and function of dendrites,

… Read the rest “Our brains are 10 times busier than we thought.”

“It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.

8 March 2017 grant 0

Nature describes how “dirty diamonds” (and other delights) can be used to make crystals that “pulse” without using any energy:

The name sounds like a prop from

… Read the rest ““It’s still fricking weird”: Physicist on the creation of time crystals.”

Chess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.

7 March 2017 grant 0

Scientific American prepares us for our cybernetic overlords with a machine that knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em… how to call a bluff and how to read a strong… Read the rest “Chess, go… and now, a computer has beaten humans at POKER.”

We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.

6 March 2017 grant 0

Science looks at skulls from Eastern China that appear to be the remains of the little-known Denisovan prehistoric people:

Since their discovery in 2010, the ex­tinct ice age humans called

… Read the rest “We might have found some more archaic Denisovan people in China.”

Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947

5 March 2017 grant 0

From The Wonderland of Science. A children’s book. From 1947.

This is what little kids were reading then.

Not that our culture is in decline or anything.

(The cover is brilliant, too.)… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturated Hydro-Carbon, by B.E. Pike, 1947”

Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole

2 March 2017 grant 0

Science reports on the telescope that hopes to see the event horizon of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way:

Next month, astronomers will harness radio telescopes across the

… Read the rest “Looking inside our galaxy’s biggest black hole”

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