FT.com introduces us to the genteel, cultured Fabiola Gianotti – accomplished pianist, paleontologist’s daughter, coffee enthusiast, trained classicist… and… Read the rest “Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.”
From “Collection 476, 1re série” collector cards showing the history of ballooning. They were printed in France sometime before 1900. The Montgolfier Brothers flew their… Read the rest “Science Art: First test flight with an aerostat at Annonay”
Archaeologists in China have found a collection of bamboo texts – including copies of the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius and other classics. New York Times reports… Read the rest “A book that’s physically older than Jesus.”
SONG: “Better Angels” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates… Read the rest “SONG: Better angels.”
Fast Company looks to the heights to chronicle a potential climate change real estate boom:
… Read the rest “Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.”Scientists and politicians have even come to the conclusion that whole countries such as Mauritius
In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.”
BBC has video footage taken by NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, two satellites that have just filmed a tsunami on the surface of the … Read the rest “A tsunami on the surface of the sun.”
I heard this on NPR, but it’s been doing the rounds lately – as all happy news should. Rather than mourning the death of yet another language, linguists are now celebrating the… Read the rest “New language being born in Australia”
Smithsonian explains summer’s great mystery – why mosquitoes find some victims sweeter:
… Read the rest “You don’t get bitten because you’re so sweet. Well, not exactly….”An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for mosquitoes,
Alternet (of course) spreads the news that researchers studying our earliest ancestors have collected some intriguing proof that cave painters were tripping:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.”Their thesis intriguingly
BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector:
… Read the rest “NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.”The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas to an engine’s combustion chamber.
Laboratory Equipment spreads the word (and we’re spreading it farther) about these space scientists who’ve decided to use Kickstarter to send the first plasma-drive ship… Read the rest “The backyard plasma ships (that you can help build).”
I’m not sure whether to be in awe of this or to be totally blase. But Reuters is reporting that for the first time, an unmanned fighter jet landed on the moving deck of an aircraft carrier… Read the rest “Flying robot lands on aircraft carrier.”
Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside:
… Read the rest “Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.”The GMO story has become mired in the eco-wrecking narrative
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