These are painted buntings, “1.2.3. males in different states of plumage and 4. female” in the branches of a chickasaw wild plum, as displayed in The birds of America : from … Read the rest “Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841”
They used to be above water, but the National Park Service reports that divers surveying a sunken island off Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas have found the ruins of a quarantine hospital and… Read the rest “Sunken cemetery, hospital found off the Dry Tortugas.”
The Intercept has found that Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, has been collecting information on abortion protests for federal law enforcement by paying close… Read the rest “U.S. Marshals use Twitter partner to scope out abortion-rights protestors.”
Security Magazine evaluates (using Imperva’s Bad Bot Report) just how much internet traffic comes from humans, and how much is automatically generated machines. The latest results… Read the rest “The internet isn’t all bots. It’s about *half* bots.”
Do two sampans make a catamaran? Looks like they did for this Chinese fisherman at the dawn of the last century, angling on the river near Shanghai.
This image came from Pol Korrigan, but I … Read the rest “Science Art: Causerie sur la Peche Fluviale en Chine, 1909.”
Science News reports on new discoveries shedding light on how prehistoric mammals grew so dang big, evolutionarily, once the dinosaurs cleared out:
… Read the rest “Big ol’ brontotheres.”Brontotheres were among the first
Vice‘s Motherboard covers what is probably the first-ever AI-related arrest, by Chinese officials who accuse a man of using the software to mass-produce fake news:
… Read the rest “China makes first ChatGPT arrest – for manufacturing fake news.”The man, who
Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements,… Read the rest “Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.”
Ars Technica gets a first glimpse at the language of cephalopods, with the discovery that each octopus (which can change the pattern of its skin at will) has its own unique pattern of stripes… Read the rest “An octopus will say its name in stripes.”
NPR reports on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory finding a way to keep the plucky space probe going in the outer limits of the solar system for another few years by tapping some reserve… Read the rest “Voyager 2 gets a slight reprieve – until 2026, at least.”
This image, by Wikimedia Commons user Seslami~commonswiki, shows an implantable electronic device that allows some people to hear, or to hear better.
What we’re seeing here, according… Read the rest “Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.”
Eric Topol, on Ground Truths, does a dive into the history of our understanding of what bacteria has to do with cancer – from the old dogma that “cancer tumors are sterile”… Read the rest “Engineering bacteria to take on cancer.”
This is the head of a plesiosaur from Kansas, back in the day when Kansas was an inland sea.
Or a picture from back in the day when the U.S. was still in World War II, and The University of Kansas… Read the rest “Science Art: Skull of Trinocromerum willistoni, Dorothea Franzen,1944.”
SONG: “Secret Dragons”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: The Guardian 2 March 2023, “‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island,”… Read the rest “SONG: Secret Dragons”
The Guardian introduces us to a new group of cyanobacteria that live in volcanic hot springs in Italy and America’s Rocky Mountains and that feast on carbon dioxide — offering… Read the rest “Volcanic bacteria can eat CO2. Lots of it, and fast.”
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