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Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941

18 December 2016 grant 0

Bulldog and bassethound, from The genetic and endocrinic basis for differences in form and behavior : as elucidated by studies of contrasted pure-line dog breeds and their hybrids

My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do.

This is what these breeds (pretty “over-bred” breeds) look… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941”

Sauna for your mental health.

17 December 2016 grant 0

Science Daily goes for a schvitz and a think with the University of Finland, where researchers have found that frequent sauna visits protect men against dementia:

The effects of sauna bathing

… Read the rest “Sauna for your mental health.”

Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.

15 December 2016 grant 0

Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have lost an average of 12% of their… Read the rest “Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.”

Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.

13 December 2016 grant 0

Science Daily looks at the vacation habits of Neanderthals on Jersey:

As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding landscape, archaeologists from Southampton,

… Read the rest “Jersey shore (the one in the English Channel) was a prehistoric tourist attraction for *millennia*.”

Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.

12 December 2016 grant 0

BBC has, courtesy of the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), a quarter-century of satellite images of Antarctica showing how the ice is shrinking, and where the melted water… Read the rest “Antarctic ice-loss: a 25-year-long look from space.”

Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962

12 December 2016 grant 0

John Glenn and Dolores O'Hara, Mercury-Atlas 6
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Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, just before the Mercury-Atlas… Read the rest “Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962”

70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.

8 December 2016 grant 0

Not that anything’s trying to get out. No, Live Science wouldn’t want us to panic needlessly over a gigantic crevice yawning wide across shrinking ice-fields of the least-understood… Read the rest “70-mile-long, 300-foot-wide crack opens in Antarctica.”

America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.

7 December 2016 grant 0

Nature salutes the gene-sequencing of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave Man – and his return to what we now know are his descendants, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe:

The case follows

… Read the rest “America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.”

Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.

6 December 2016 grant 0

Science Daily looks at the neurons that rev up and those that spin down when different parts of your brain are used – a trick based on humans’ knack for “selective attention”… Read the rest “Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.”

Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171

5 December 2016 grant 0

From Sun In Time: http://sdowww.lmsal.com/suntoday_v2/index.html?suntoday_date=2016-12-04
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Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see.

From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171”

Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together

2 December 2016 grant 0

Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land:

Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of a massive

… Read the rest “Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together”

Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen”

30 November 2016 grant 0

Scientific American is looking at what exactly the Tennessee wildfires might mean for our changing planet:

A prolonged drought that has engulfed much of the Southeast created conditions

… Read the rest “Wildfires “Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen””

These germs join carbon to silicon.

28 November 2016 grant 0

Nature reports on a critter in Iceland’s hot springs that binds silicon to carbon – which could lead to all sorts of weird breakthroughs:

Researchers have learned to bind carbon

… Read the rest “These germs join carbon to silicon.”

Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within

27 November 2016 grant 0

Sinuses spiraling behind a bygone nose.
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Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our sinuses. Evolutionarily, they say they’re… Read the rest “Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within”

Thanksgiving Theremin: “Blue Monday” by Orkestra Obsolete (New Order cover)

25 November 2016 grant 0

This cover came out in March this year, celebrating the anniversary of New Order’s 1983 hit. The idea was to remake the groundbreaking electronic song only using instruments –… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Blue Monday” by Orkestra Obsolete (New Order cover)”

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