Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to […]
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SONG: The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)
SONG: “The Scientist (a penitential cover)”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this vaguely scientific […]
Bone jewelry means humans were in the Americas *before* the Bering Land Bridge.
IFLScience reports on some stylish, retro bangles coming from a Brazilian designer that are taking the world by storm … because they were made from […]
Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011
The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth […]
Ivory Lady was a prehistoric warrior queen (and maybe a warrior witch queen, too).
CNN reports on a Spanish discovery that a 5,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elephant tusk, an ostrich egg, an ivory comb and two daggers – […]
A human-like ape might have decorated the graves of its dead 330,000 years ago.
Science News reports on a controversy over Homo naledi, a human-like ape from 160,000 years before the first Homo sapiens, who might have been burying […]
Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.
This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads: Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. […]
Astronomers might finally have seen the universe’s first stars.
Scientific American reports on a James Webb Space Telescope discovery, allowing scientists the first possible glimpses of the very first stars ever to shine in […]
AI trained on AI tends to collapse (like most cannibalizing systems do).
Venture Beat, a tech investing magazine, weighs in on research that looks directly at the problems that arise when AI is used to generate web […]
Cooking with gas increases cancer risk.
I hate to read it, but NPR reported on a Stanford study that found gas stoves increase levels of benzene in the home – a […]
Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.
30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany. It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the […]
Women hunted, back in the hunter-gatherer days.
PhysOrg has a study that defies the conventional idea of “man the hunter, woman the gatherer” with evidence that, in more than three-quarters of contemporary […]
AI is eating the web. Not as in coding, but as in its economy.
The Verge has one of the more interesting pieces (to me) about AI that I’ve seen lately, reporting less on “what do these content-making machines […]
Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905
I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new […]
SONG: Content Feeds
SONG: “Content Feeds”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: The Markup, 1 May 2023, “The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT,” as used in the post “How do […]