This early ’60s vision of the future (in all likelihood, right now) was painted by visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked in industrial design as well as making films… Read the rest “Science Art: From United States Steel International, a porfolio of probabilities, by Syd Mead”
National Geographic ruins the illusion that maybe larks and mockingbirds might be safe from shark attacks. Nope. Songbirds are being found in tiger sharks’ stomachs:
… Read the rest “Sharks eat whatever they want. Even songbirds.”Marcus Drymon,
Science Daily tries to figure out what the Greek gorilla or Austrian orangutan were really like:
… Read the rest “The Great Apes of Europe.”To date scientists have assumed that great apes went extinct in Europe at least 9 million
The Independent goes way back, digging up the history of the diva of the pharaohs:
… Read the rest “Rock star buried in the Valley of the Kings”It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found there, said Mansour
Discovery savors the very faint aroma of a 1,300-year-old Mayan tobacco flask – the first physical evidence that Mayans used super-strong tobacco:
… Read the rest “Visionary Mayan tobacco.”None of the nicotine by-products
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical engineers can do, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.”
WaPo covers the war between a newly discovered frog and an itsy bitsy fish over which one is the smallest vertebrate:
… Read the rest “Fight to be tiniest.”An article Wednesday in the journal PLoS One named Paedophryne amauensis
MIT Tech Review is finally announcing part of that unimaginable future we’ve all been waiting for – fat-burning exercise in capsule form:
… Read the rest “Workout in a pill. No, really.”Researchers have discovered a natural
Not a fever dream. Not a Discovery photoshop. No, it’s a newly discovered snake named Matilda:
… Read the rest “A yellow viper with horns over its eyes.”Matilda, technically known as Atheris matildae, was named after the daughter of Tim
The fun thing, New Scientist seems to be saying, about dark matter right now is that it’s really dark. Like, really, really not a glimmer of light at all:
… Read the rest “Really dark matter.”Yet any hopes that the nature
A medieval hunt for the “brownfish, or baleen.” Centuries before we got our light and energy by burning petroleum, we got it from whales.
This illustration comes from a series… Read the rest “Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598”
The Swedes *really* like their torrents. They revere them. It’s not just entertainment any more – file-sharing is a religion. Literally.
… Read the rest “The first church of file-sharing: Kopimism.”The Church of Kopimism
That’s what designers will be doing to make stores and furniture and *everything else* comfortable for aging Baby Boomer consumers. Discover looks at the way MIT is putting young… Read the rest “Wearing the senior citizen suit.”
File this Washington Post story under “unintended consequences,” maybe. Researchers in Yellowstone Park are noting that as wolf populations are rebounding, the number… Read the rest “More wolves, more trees.”
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