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SciAm considers ways to make magic mushrooms, if not legal, at least less illegal.

21 October 2021 grant 0

Scientific American commentator Mason Marks, a law professor, examines three roads to making psilocybin easier for researchers – and people who need clinical help – to work… Read the rest “SciAm considers ways to make magic mushrooms, if not legal, at least less illegal.”

Lucy is NASA’s mission to find “fossils” in space.

20 October 2021 grant 0

NASA has launched a probe named Lucy, after the Australopithecus fossil that rewrote the story of human origins. This Lucy’s job is to check out asteroids for even more ancient traces,… Read the rest “Lucy is NASA’s mission to find “fossils” in space.”

African farmers use bee hives as elephant-proof fences.

18 October 2021 grant 0

Scientific American looks at scientific Kenyans, who have taken advantage of one of the few things elephants are actually afraid of – stinging honeybees – to keep their fields… Read the rest “African farmers use bee hives as elephant-proof fences.”

Scientific illustration of a chameleon from the Early Modern period.

Science Art: Caméleon, Sébastien Le Clerc, 1676

17 October 2021 grant 0

This is a chameleon seen inside and out in Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des animaux, by Claude Perrault, an early text on natural history with all kinds of exotic … Read the rest “Science Art: Caméleon, Sébastien Le Clerc, 1676”

Singapore robots patrol against “anti-social behavior.”

13 October 2021 grant 0

Euronews.com reports on a new use for robots, to enforce social mores and good citizenship. Citizens seem less than pleased with the artificial politeness police, however:

Called “Xavier,”

… Read the rest “Singapore robots patrol against “anti-social behavior.””

China’s moon mission found something interesting.

12 October 2021 grant 0

Reuters reports that the Chinese moon mission brought back rock samples that were about a billion years younger than expected – meaning the molten early moon cooled much slower than… Read the rest “China’s moon mission found something interesting.”

Scientific illustration of NASA training equipment, a giant gyroscope not unlike the device in Lawnmower Man

Science Art: The MASTIF, or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility.

10 October 2021 grant 0

Welcome to Cleveland, spaceman! This was a training device from what was the Lewis Research Center and is now the John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

It was located inside the… Read the rest “Science Art: The MASTIF, or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility.”

Robot sailboat shoots video inside a major hurricane.

8 October 2021 grant 0

NOAA accomplished a world first when category-4 Hurricane Sam raged across the middle Atlantic, by sending an automated vessel named Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 into the 50-foot waves … Read the rest “Robot sailboat shoots video inside a major hurricane.”

Planning for a funeral on Mars.

6 October 2021 grant 0

Discover magazine discusses an unusual problem we haven’t had to face yet. How will Mars colonists handle their first funerals in an environment where human bodies don’t … Read the rest “Planning for a funeral on Mars.”

Scientific illustration of a blue shark

Science Art: Blue Shark (Carcharias glaucus), 1904.

3 October 2021 grant 0

Reinhold Thiele painted this limber-looking blue shark for the book British Salt-Water Fishes.

I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but they got it from University of Washington’s … Read the rest “Science Art: Blue Shark (Carcharias glaucus), 1904.”

Volcanoes let dinosaurs happen – by changing the climate.

1 October 2021 grant 0

Science News looks at a case of climate change from millions of years before humans existed – a series of volcanic eruptions that caused 2 million years of rainstorms, which paved … Read the rest “Volcanoes let dinosaurs happen – by changing the climate.”

Facebook’s fake, troll-farm Christians.

30 September 2021 grant 0

MIT Review has one for the “strange days” file. An internal 2019 report leaked by a Facebook analyst found that 19 of the 20 most popular Christian groups on Facebook were actually… Read the rest “Facebook’s fake, troll-farm Christians.”

Scientific illustration of early headphones used as a circuit tester in the 1900s.

Science Art: Phone Tester for Electric Circuits, Patent No. 1,187,500; issued to G. B. Raymond.

26 September 2021 grant 0

These are not headphones, exactly. This is a thing made of telephone parts designed to help electrical tinkerers do better tinkering.

It’s from a page called “Latest Patents”… Read the rest “Science Art: Phone Tester for Electric Circuits, Patent No. 1,187,500; issued to G. B. Raymond.”

Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.

25 September 2021 grant 0

Science presents hard evidence that humans really were in North America at the time of the last Ice Age, along with giant sloths and glyptodonts:

Despite a plethora of archaeological research

… Read the rest “Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.”

SONG: I Chant

24 September 2021 grant 0

SONG: “I Chant”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Smithsonian, 23 Feb 2021, “Archaeologists in Egypt Discover Mummy With Gold Tongue,” as used in the post “Mummified… Read the rest “SONG: I Chant”

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