Why is dissonance noisy?
Nature explores the strange mathematics of yuck – the neurological reason why we find dissonant music hard to listen to:
… Read the rest “Why is dissonance noisy?”Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, made up of notes
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‘The Bloop’ identified.
I’m not sure when this happened, but NOAA thinks they’ve finally identified the mysterious underwater sound known as ‘The Bloop’:
… Read the rest “‘The Bloop’ identified.”The broad spectrum sounds
Confined to a wheelchair, but still rides a bike…
Guardian has some unusual insight into the human brain, thanks to a man whose Parkinson’s has left him confined to a wheelchair, but who is still able to ride a bicycle:
… Read the rest “Confined to a wheelchair, but still rides a bike…”This phenomenon
Science Art: World’s Weirdest: Seagulls Help Sunfish, National Geographic.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move.
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NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.
ITProPortal.com reports on a heightened state of alert in the halls of the government offices in charge of the very biggest missiles there are… because somebody just stole a kinda… Read the rest “NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.”
What does the zombie-making fungus fear? Its own parasite.
Science Tech Daily says in the parasite world, it’s turtles all the way down. No matter how much of a *parasite* you are… like the brain-eating cordyceps fungus, for example…… Read the rest “What does the zombie-making fungus fear? Its own parasite.”
Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is messing up a perfectly neat theory about how the universe fits together:
… Read the rest “Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)”Supersymmetry, or SUSY, has gained popularity as a way to explain some
Bizarre penis shaved by scientists
I can’t beat Science Nordic’s headline. They’re talking about some tragically vicious beetle anatomy:
… Read the rest “Bizarre penis shaved by scientists”The many spines on the penis are just as nasty, sharp and destructive
Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.
UC Berkeley looks back to an old (and abandoned) method for making explosives and tweaks it to make renewable biofuels:
… Read the rest “Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.”Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel
Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927
We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm.
These are his aardvarks.
Earth-pigs.
After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally,… Read the rest “Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927”
Little things. Big pictures.
Nikon (through Wired) presents some of the most amazing windows onto the microscopic world ever seen:
… Read the rest “Little things. Big pictures.”Super-close-ups of garlic, snail fossils, stinging nettle, bat embryos, bone cancer
Egyptian princess found. (Not alive.)
PhysOrg has the details on the latest royal presence in Cairo:
… Read the rest “Egyptian princess found. (Not alive.)”Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests
Cold planet Mars.
Nature reveals a setback in the search for life on Mars. We’re learning more about the atmosphere there, and there doesn’t seem to be enough methane:
… Read the rest “Cold planet Mars.”On Earth, life is responsible
SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. … Read the rest “SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)”
Science Art: Fig. 2, A detailed view of Earth’s magnetosphere… from Earth Orbital Science, Space in the Seventies by WR Corliss, 1971.
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared.
found on archive.org (pdf).