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Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.

26 August 2014 grant 0

The National (of the UAE) reports on radical new ways to deal with climate change… from the dawn of civilization:

The Bronze Age transition from the Umm An Nar (2700 to 2000 BC) to the

… Read the rest “Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.”

Science Art: The moon’s influence on earth’s tides, c 1930s.

24 August 2014 grant 0

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A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s.

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SONG: “Rosetta”

24 August 2014 grant 0

SONG: “Rosetta.” (To download: https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/choons/grant-Rosetta2.mp3 )

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “‘We’re… Read the rest “SONG: “Rosetta””

Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.

22 August 2014 grant 0

The Atlantic, the Pacific… are sinks. Heat sinks. So says Scientific American, explaining that temperatures haven’t risen as sharply as they could have (YET) because the… Read the rest “Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.”

Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease

21 August 2014 grant 0

The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out what was *really* going on in her malfunctioning… Read the rest “Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease”

Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.

20 August 2014 grant 0

A prehistoric worm with claws, says Live Science, has rewritten the origin story of crabs, spiders and mosquitos:

According to a new study of the creatures’ odd claws, Hallucigenia

… Read the rest “Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.”

Gut bacteria choose what you eat.

19 August 2014 grant 0

Science Daily takes us humans out of the driver’s seat and puts the germs inside us in charge of the menu tonight:

In an article published this week in the journal BioEssays, researchers

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HIV therapy might work on MS, too.

18 August 2014 grant 0

Neomatica explains how British and Australian researchers are figuring out why HIV patients show an unusual resistance to multiple sclerosis and its symptoms. It may be that MS is caused… Read the rest “HIV therapy might work on MS, too.”

Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.

17 August 2014 grant 0

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This mysterious water-driven machine is from a mysterious Arabic manuscript, somewhere between 200 and 500 years old. The whole document is full of mechanisms with scoops… Read the rest “Science Art: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.”

Mummies: WAAAY older than we thought.

15 August 2014 grant 0

Jesus lived 2,000 years ago. There was no such thing as the English language, and most human beings had never even seen paper. 2,500 years before *that* is when we thought the first Egyptian… Read the rest “Mummies: WAAAY older than we thought.”

Anesthesia works by stealing electrons from your brain.

14 August 2014 grant 0

Scientific American has more on the weird quantum effects that make consciousness go bye-bye:

General anaesthetics may extinguish consciousness through mysterious quantum biological

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Hemp really IS a super-material… in circuitry, that is.

13 August 2014 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment reveals recent findings (as cannabis becomes easier to research) that the marijuana plant might make better supercapacitors than the “wonder material”… Read the rest “Hemp really IS a super-material… in circuitry, that is.”

Antiperspirant makes you stinkier. In the long run.

12 August 2014 grant 0

Ain’t that modern life all over? Real Clear Science exposes the (potentially) stinky way antiperspirants alter your armpit bacteria:

While most of us might only concern ourselves

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Fine wines – a plummy finish, a hint of earthiness, and some sex-bending pseudohormones.

11 August 2014 grant 0

Science 2.0 has more on the discovery of lots of phthalates in fine European wines:

It isn’t just the booze itself, a group of scholars contends it’s the packaging. Phthalate

… Read the rest “Fine wines – a plummy finish, a hint of earthiness, and some sex-bending pseudohormones.”

Science Art: The Common Angler (Lophius piscatorus) (After W. Von Wright in Smitt), 1905.

10 August 2014 grant 0

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This is from the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections in the Biodiversity Library.

I bet there’s all *kinds* of things in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.… Read the rest “Science Art: The Common Angler (Lophius piscatorus) (After W. Von Wright in Smitt), 1905.”

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