No song today (or two days ago)
I sometimes work the polls during an election and Tuesday was the 23rd, and I hadn’t finished a song by the 22nd. I’ve nearly got […]
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Science Art: Bellia arenaria, from The Annals and magazine of natural history, Series 2, Vol. 7, #37, 1850.
This is an illustration of a sea creature that, at the time, was (not exactly) new to science. It was new to British science when […]
Airship hangar awaits new zeppelin revolution.
BBC is waiting patiently for Google co-founder Sergey Brin to create another world-changing revolution. They’re hanging out in an enormous hangar, the Goodyear Airdock in […]
Bees of the sea: crustacean pollinators
Scientific American introduces us to the bees of the sea, newly observed tiny crustaceans that pollinate seaweed like bees do flowers on land: For the […]
Science Art: Woodhouse & Rawson Electrical Lighting & Apparatus ad, 1890
Advertisements from the 1800s are usually visually striking, but this one is really something else – from the loopy lettering to the drama of the […]
Exploring alien planets (and Earth) by balloon
Science News looks at the recent breakthroughs in planetary research using an often-overlooked kind of vehicle, a lighter-than-air balloon, as a research platform in alien […]
Maybe we’ll be able to answer our phones again after all. A cybersecurity expert is hopeful.
We in the Guild are not quite ready to break out the chilled sparkling cider and start dialing random numbers to celebrate… but Scientific American […]
Science Art: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil…, Etienne Klein, 2022.
Maybe you saw this image on Twitter with a blurb like: Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 […]
Mind-reading helmet used to detect porn in China.
Maybe a half-step beyond “I know it when I see it.” PC Gamer repeats reports of some strange technological applications allegedly being tested in China, […]
Transplant breakthrough: A system for keeping the organs alive in a pig that has died.
Science News is talking about a new “cellular life support” system that could change the way we do organ transplants by keeping organs alive in […]
Mammoth hunt pushes first North American settlers back by a few millennia.
PhysOrg looks at the remains of what UT Austin researchers have determined was a 37,000-year-old mammoth hunt in New Mexico, a place where scientists didn’t […]
Science Art: Holothuria tubulosa (Sjogurka stor ugglan, a sea cucumber) from Nordisk Familjebok, 1919.
The sea cucumber doesn’t look like much until you really look at it. They’re complicated little creatures. They have complicated little parts. In this case, […]
“Necrobotic” spiders grab things more precisely than machine fingers.
Rice University robotics engineers are playing with dead things – spiders, to be precise – and say they’ve come up with a breakthrough in precision […]
Saving the beach with some stick-and-palm-frond engineering.
Reuters reports from Senegal on a new anti-erosion project that uses dirt-cheap, pollution-free materials to defend an island from Atlantic swells that threaten to wash […]
Science Art: 20alpha-Dihydroprogesterone 3D spacefill, by Jynto, 2011.
Progesterone is a hormone released by ovaries. It’s made from cholesterol, which might seem odd. It’s a key component in birth-control pills and in hormone […]