This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian lady.
The cartoon couple are from an ad in the October 1964 issue… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.”
NPR has a piece on a USF anthro prof’s idea to make her sort of depressing research more palatable in a way of which this guild heartily approves – by turning data on public reactions… Read the rest “Algae bloom data, set to music.”
NPR greets springtime with flowers that show their brightest color (a fluorescent green) after the sun goes down, thanks to genetic modification that makes these petunias glow in the dark… Read the rest “Glowing petunias.”
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, then glued white and colored tissue over it to create the… Read the rest “Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.”
That’s how the CBS headline starts, and I can only improve upon it by adding the drugs in the interest of accuracy. The story is about a sexually-transmitted fungal disease expected… Read the rest “Hyper-sexual zombie cicadas… on speed.”
Interesting Engineering reports on antisocial behavior on the part of Russia, which seems to be responsible for jamming the GPS systems of 1,600 jet planes that dared fly too close to Poland,… Read the rest “Spoofed GPS signals affect 1,600 jets.”
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, a survey of Roman antiquities,… Read the rest “Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.”
Science Daily has research from University of Oxford archaeologists that is potentially upending a long-standing belief about digging up our long-ago ancestors. After looking through… Read the rest ““An archive of ancient human brains.””
Nature, always hoping to increase the reach of researchers, has a study that shows using the platform formerly known as Twitter to share research will still boost your engagement online,… Read the rest “Does tweeting research help?”
Science Daily reminds us again of the charms of the humble, unkillable water bear, the tardigrade, a creature that can withstand nearly anything and just keep on going: dehydration, radiation,… Read the rest “Tardigrade proteins can slow aging in humans.”
An illustration of four ambush bugs from Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Or parts of ambush bugs.
At the top left is Phymata carioca… Read the rest “Science Art: Four Phymata species from “Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II,” October 1951.”
SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 2024, “Humpback sex photographed for first time – and both whales… Read the rest “SONG: Great Big Love”
The New York Times reports on olms — blind, pale, cave-dwelling salamanders once believed to be baby dragons — regularly traveling up to the surface out of their underwater… Read the rest “Baby dragons commute out of their caves.”
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big!
Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from the biggest.
As NASA describes this poster (for that is what… Read the rest “Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.”
“Language is a virus,” said William S. Burroughs. Now, Science Daily reports that researchers at Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science have found that intelligence… Read the rest “Ancient viruses gave us our brains.”
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