Business Insider, among other sources, has a neat piece on an even neater app that lets you talk to someone on the ISS:
… Read the rest “Talk to a friend in space. Or friends of a friend in space.”talian astronaut Samantha Cristoferetti is currently aboard the International
My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all kinds of fascinating things about the importance… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2: Lateral views of the skull and lower jaw… (etc.)”
If you’ve got a sister, why not turn her into a musical instrument?
Human Theremin from Lucy Sansom on Vimeo.
This is more about treated vocals than theremin… and it’s not exactly got a groove. But still, there’s something DUDE about it.
The Theremin Orchestra from merche blasco… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: The Theremin Orchestra, by Merche Blasco (with Sonia Megías and Thessia Machado)”
Dorit Chrysler seems to be on top of the theremin world today. Also, airplanes. And fingertips.
Jesper Just and Dorit Chrysler: This nameless spectacle from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: This Nameless Spectacle by Dorit Chrysler and Jesper Just”
Popular Mechanics gets all excited over PayPal/Tesla Motors/SpaceX magnate Elon Musk’s next set of high-tech tricks, including drones and rockets with unfolding wings (in a Star… Read the rest “Elon Musk designs X-Wing rockets & spaceport drones.”
SONG: “High Desert.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “All Dressed Up For Mars And Nowhere To Go“, Medium, 9 November 2014, as used in the post “Red Planet… Read the rest “SONG: High Desert”
It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a lens – how an electron microscope make… Read the rest “Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946”
NPR goes, ahem, under the covers to trace the brain chemistry of sleep:
… Read the rest “Here’s why sleep affects your memory (and how you can change it).”“One of the most profound effects of a night of sleep is the improvement in our ability to remember things,”
This is from Salon, so not exactly science reportage here, but still:
… Read the rest “Post-Script: The House just passed a bill barring scientists from advising the EPA on their own research.”In what might be the most ridiculous aspect of the whole thing, the bill forbids scientific experts from participating
Scientific American (via Nature) has more about Rush Holt’s eight-term Congressional career, and his new gig as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)… Read the rest ““There are some real frustrations.” – Rocket scientist & Representative Rush Holt, on how science works in Congress.”
CBC has more on a study that finds kids adopted from China in infancy still have native speakers’ brain responses to spoken Chinese – even if they can’t understand it… Read the rest “Adoptees’ “lost language” is still wired into their brains.”
Sorry, was that overdramatic? Science Daily is calmer in reporting that University of California researchers have found that Triclosan, the stuff that makes antibacterial soap work,… Read the rest “Antimicrobial soap might be killing you.”
This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals with… it’s an unidentified insect found,… Read the rest “Science Art: #11268 (Small, Unidentified Insect On the Exoskeletal Surface Of A Dragonfly)”
Nature tries not to be *too* foreboding about the dark times ahead for Philae:
… Read the rest “A shadow falls across Comet 67P and the Philae lander….”The Philae lander’s drill is now working, but the craft’s batteries — designed to power just 2.5
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