SONG: Dirt Poor
SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and social… Read the rest “SONG: Dirt Poor”
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Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942
This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns the Hard Rock Cafe brand, has … Read the rest “Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942”
Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes.
Time (not a science magazine, but…) has a story on the Metaculus forecasting cup (not a scientific experiment, but…), which offers a $5,000 prize to members who successfully… Read the rest “Computers are beating humans at predicting future outcomes.”
Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB
These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, and Adler. According to his Wikipedia article… Read the rest “Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB”
Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s.
ScienceAlert reports on a brain-scan study that finds the loss of smell — apparently triggered by a misfiring immune response in the brain — may give patients an earlier warning… Read the rest “Loss of smell may be an earlier sign of Alzheimer’s.”
Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.
IFL Science has some new findings about people with aphantasia — that is, people who don’t have an inner movie-screen playing thoughts as images. There are more of them than… Read the rest “Psychedelics can open the mind’s eye, kind of literally.”
Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.
News Atlas reports on an industrial-scale sand battery that is replacing a woodchip-fired power plant in Pornainen, Finland, with clean heat and energy:
… Read the rest “Sand battery takes over heating duties for Finnish city.”It’s set to reduce carbon
Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.
PhysOrg redefines what “attractive” is for the deep-sea set, thanks to a study that has found male ghost sharks grow a retractable, tooth-covered rod out of their foreheads… Read the rest “Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.”
Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011
I found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the other diagrams and models. Maybe because it looks a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011”
Giant black-hole binaries spinning in star graveyard
Space brings us new analyses of stellar graveyards, which astronomers study to discover how stars develop and, eventually, die – turning into dense neutron stars or denser black… Read the rest “Giant black-hole binaries spinning in star graveyard”
Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions
PhysOrg reports on Flinders University researchers who have found that soil microbes can affect our gut biota, which in turn can influence our emotional lives, including our feelings … Read the rest “Dirty love: Soil steering our emotions”
Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966
A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning a ray of electrons… Read the rest “Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966”
“Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.
The Planetary Science Institute reports on what space missions have learned from studying a strange, sinuous series of formations on the surface of Mars that resemble the curves and folds… Read the rest ““Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.”
Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT
Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI.
From the image description on Wikimedia Commons:
… Read the rest “Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT”ChatGPT 4 generated this image based on the following prompt: “Generate
SONG: Jet Lagged
SONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal jet lag’, study finds,” University … Read the rest “SONG: Jet Lagged”