Click to embiggen Now, after that brief, regrettable interruption in service, a tribute to the computer. This illustration is from The Elements of Natural Philosophy; […]
SONG: “Vulnerable Ape Theory (Going to a Blues Show with the Young Earth Creationists)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Vulnerability made us human: how our early […]
This is a waterwheel, from a book written by architect and engineer Georg Andreas Boeckler, under the title Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens opera molaria […]
PeerJ has a study revealing how one the planet’s most invasive species has wormed its way into – of course – Florida: The land planarian […]
So say Stanford University neurologists, who have actually seen memories under a microscope – and watched them vanish: Now Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of […]
I couldn’t really improve on New Scientist‘s headline there. This device shines a laser through an earlobe or wrist and detects malaria parasites through light […]
Looks like I’ll be owing a song… and a penitential cover for my tardiness. Stay tuned.
Auto Guide (and a few other places) have been looking at… well, is the step before a driverless car or the step beyond? Anyway, it’s […]
Click to embiggen These are paper sculptures of birds’ wings – four specific categories of birds’ wings. As explained by their creator: This is my […]
The Guardian has more on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official extinction verdict: The agency said on Tuesday the four-year review, which included information […]
Popular Archaeology thrills us with really, really old scares… digging up (literally!) evidence of Classical Greek zombie stories: As one case in point, [University of […]
PhysOrg turns the “brutal caveman” stereotype on its head, with a new look at our earliest ancestors as sensitive folks who got a leg up […]
The ESA has spent an eventful weekend now that the Rosetta probe has woken up after a long sleep on a comet: Hidden by shadows, […]
Click to embiggen This seems to be a minute beetle, as pictured in Objects for the microscope, being a popular description of the most instructive […]
New Scientist has photos and video of a severed rat limb… that was never part of any rat’s body. It was grown in a dish: […]
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