The Independent has a surprisingly lucid summary of a 25-year longitudinal study of cannabis users from ages 13 to 38. And they found that teen marijuana users dropped their IQs by 8 points… Read the rest “Cannabis does lower IQ. By about 8 points.”
It’s a bacterium. It preys on insects. And Scientific American makes me worry that one way or another, they’ll figure out a way to make us eat our own brains too:
… Read the rest “It makes them EAT THEIR OWN BRAINS. And even worse….”As well as passing
It’s an egg! A jacana laid it on some tropical riverbank or lake shore sometime in the 1800s, just so Alphonse Millot could come along and immortalize it in the pages of an encyclopedia.… Read the rest “Science Art: Oeufs 2b, 29, by Adolphe Millot, Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]”
NIH reports that cutting calories by two-thirds, contrary to what you might expect, might not add years to your lifespan:
… Read the rest “So maybe that reduced-calorie diet won’t extend your life after all….”Scientists have found that calorie restriction—a diet comprised
EurekAlert goes back 230 million years to uncover the most ancient arthropods ever found:
… Read the rest “Oldest insects ever.”The amber droplets, most between 2-6 millimeters long, were buried in outcrops high in the Dolomite
Nature sniffs out a technique for using smells to pick up new information – and new emotional responses – in your sleep:
… Read the rest “Learn in your sleep. With your nose….”Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot,
The BBC reveals that English (and just about every other European language) descends from an ancestor that was not Russian, as was the popular belief, but Turkish… according to a … Read the rest “Our languages are Turkish. Virally so.”
This painting was one of the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007, a mathematical art contest.
I suppose nowadays, fractal art seems very, very 1990s. But still –… Read the rest “Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker”
SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Mars rover Curiosity… Read the rest “SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)””
How can Christian Science Monitor be so calm about this? Curiosity is on an alien planet vaporizing stuff with lasers:
… Read the rest “Our ROBOT is SHOOTING LASERS at MARS.”NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has zapped its first rock in what
The Daily Galaxy says Saturn’s big moon, Titan, could be a life-making machine:
… Read the rest “Titan is making DNA. Or could be.”Saturn’s moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid water. But the orange
BBC dispels the myth that Monday’s any more miserable than any other weekday (with the exception, of course, of Friday):
… Read the rest “Monday’s no worse than Tuesday, say grim-faced scientists.”US investigators who looked at a poll of 340,000 people found
This hypnotic image seems to have traveled out of Asa Smith’s book, into David Rumsey’s cartography collection and from there into a Zazzle poster collection before winding… Read the rest “Science Art: Orbits of the Planets by Asa Smith, 1850”
Tecca reports on the 50 percent mutation rate in insects near the nuclear site:
… Read the rest “Mutant butterflies of Fukushima.”Tens of thousands of residents were displaced and officials assured the world that the release of harmful
Mac fans should have a *field day* coming up with headlines for this ABC.net.au piece on Bill Gates’ noble new quest – to reinvent the toilet:
… Read the rest “Bill Gates to build a better toilet.”A charitable foundation founded
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