Science Art: Cephalaspis by John Dunn
A Devonian fish with a bony head. That means it was swimming around hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs. Found on the Scientific […]
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SONG: Spirit of the Words
SONG: “Spirit of the Words” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern tongues”, […]
“Once time runs backwards, we’ll….” Now wait a minute. What?
PhysOrg gets non-linear with their look at “time reversal” and how we might soon use it: Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone […]
We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens: An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, […]
Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….
Nature looks at the star power of “network theory,” curious statistics that control all kinds of complicated systems. They’ve found that even really complex networks […]
Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)
Not individual whales, but whole new species. Science has the details on the big, big discovery in California’s highway system: “In California, you need a […]
Science Art: Plate IV: Chilabothrus Inornatus and Dactyloa Edwardsii, by M&N Hanhart,1851.
Click to embiggen. Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific […]
Meteor explodes over Urals. I’m not making that up.
You may have heard about this by now, but a 10-ton chunk of space rock slammed into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded, RT […]
“Breathe, supernova! Now PUSH!” (Watching a black hole being born.)
CNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born: Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra […]
This is how you scare the fearless. Neurologically.
Nature examines the biology of fear – and how researchers have succeeded in creating fear in the fearless: Many studies on animals over the years […]
“Bituqen” is Proto-Polynesian for “star.” A computer figured that out.
Nature reports on the algorithm researchers have devised to find (or recreate) the ancestors of modern languages: Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-Côté of the University of British […]
Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?
Slate examines the mysteries of the mass extinction that killed all the dinosaurs… except the birds: “Dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid 65 million years […]
Science Art: Exploring the Universe, from Looking Into Science supplements, 1965
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race. This is an image of […]
“I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing?)” by Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, Barenaked Ladies & The Wexford Gleeks
Does this sound schmaltzy? Usually things with a full choir and a key change after the bridge sound schmaltzy. I honestly can’t tell – judgement […]
Commander Hadfield gets together with Barenaked Lady.
No, he’s not doing *that* on the ISS. The commander is, like The Postal Service, making music via a long-distance collaboration… only his is with […]