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SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover)

24 March 2023 grant 0

SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: This has no source in scientific research; it’s a penitential cover of a song by a band named Werk… Read the rest “SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover)”

SONG: The Elephant

24 March 2023 grant 0

SONG: “The Elephant”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: BBC 28 Feb 2023, “Kerala: India temple replaces elephant with robot for rituals,” as used in the post “Kerala temple… Read the rest “SONG: The Elephant”

Kids of same-sex parents are… pretty normal, according to an international study.

22 March 2023 grant 0

The Guardian reports on a geographically broad study – a study of studies from many different countries – that looked at same-sex couples and found that their children are … Read the rest “Kids of same-sex parents are… pretty normal, according to an international study.”

Nature‘s endorsement didn’t help Biden – it only hurt Nature (and scientists in general).

22 March 2023 grant 0

Nature honestly (and slightly brutally) examines its own shortcomings as a political advocate in a study that found the scientific journal’s 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden didn’t… Read the rest “Nature‘s endorsement didn’t help Biden – it only hurt Nature (and scientists in general).”

Scientific illustration of a fossii flower, the flower of a cycad.

Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.

19 March 2023 grant 0

This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstructed from a fossil.

The fossil came from the Cycad National Monument, established… Read the rest “Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.”

Martian soil is nice for rice.

17 March 2023 grant 0

Science News reports on a presentation at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by researcher Abhilash Ramachandran, who found that rice – one of our planet’s… Read the rest “Martian soil is nice for rice.”

Scientific illustration of the International Space Station, orbiting high above the Caspian Sea, as photographed by Space Shuttle Discovery.

Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.

12 March 2023 grant 0

The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea during the STS-114 Return to Flight mission. The shuttle had been docked … Read the rest “Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.”

No sex, please. Not menopausal, just busy! (Research says.)

11 March 2023 grant 0

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked (I’m tempted to say “longingly”) at the sex lives of middle-aged women, and found the main factor influencing… Read the rest “No sex, please. Not menopausal, just busy! (Research says.)”

Cute, smiling mini-sphinx found in Egypt.

8 March 2023 grant 0

Riddles are funny! BBC reports on the discovery at the Hathor Temple in southern Egypt of a small sphinx with an engaging grin that might have been modeled on the Emperor Claudius:

The limestone

… Read the rest “Cute, smiling mini-sphinx found in Egypt.”

Lake Huron reveals 19th-century shipwreck.

7 March 2023 grant 0

Ars Technica celebrates an underwater discovery: the surprisingly well-preserved wreck of the schooner barge Ironton, which went down in 1898 after colliding with the Great Lakes freighter… Read the rest “Lake Huron reveals 19th-century shipwreck.”

Scientific illustration of Victorian machinery, a mechanical device used to screw into metal.

Science Art: Britannia Co.’s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.

5 March 2023 grant 0

“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, by Thomas W. Barber – full title:… Read the rest “Science Art: Britannia Co.’s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.”

Solar panels increase crop yields, insulate reservoirs, and can help farmers.

5 March 2023 grant 0

PNAS reports on some unanticipated consequences of solar farming – but things that banks of solar panels that are unexpectedly good, not bad:

To generate as much energy as a conventional

… Read the rest “Solar panels increase crop yields, insulate reservoirs, and can help farmers.”

Kerala temple introduces a robot ritual elephant.

1 March 2023 grant 0

BBC reports on a mechanical elephant that is replacing a flesh-and-blood elephant that previously conducted rituals in a temple in Kerala, India:

The initiative by authorities at Irinjadappilly

… Read the rest “Kerala temple introduces a robot ritual elephant.”

How a ballerina spins, as a neurophysical phenomenon.

1 March 2023 grant 0

The journal Human Movement Science carries research from Swiss sports scientists who have used ballet dancers to figure out how it can be possible for a human being to keep spinning on one… Read the rest “How a ballerina spins, as a neurophysical phenomenon.”

Scientific illustration of a spiny lobster nymph dyed blue-green for the microscope., all legs and bubble-body and eyes (or tails?) on long stalks.

Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019

26 February 2023 grant 0

It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster!

That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The legs and antenna are all its own. Evibacus princeps… Read the rest “Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019”

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