SONG: “Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”.
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SOURCE: Scientific American, 18 November 2019, “Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form,”… Read the rest “SONG: Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”
Smithsonian looks at tattoos – the tattoos of Egyptian mummies, obscured by the mummification resins but revealed by infrared light:
… Read the rest “Egyptian mummies’ tattoos revealed: crosses, baboons and hieroglyphics”Archaeologist Anne Austin of the University
NASA, for a while, was looking at different ways an aircraft’s body could be used to generate lift, rather than having wings sort of stuck on the fuselage after the… Read the rest “Science Art: Hybrid Wing Body, NASA, 2013”
Science Daily reports on a University of Maryland study that shows that (for mice at least) spending a week in darkness resets certain brain circuits, and in particular boosts the sensitivity… Read the rest “A week in the dark rewires the brain (and boosts hearing sensitivity)”
University of British Columbia literacy researchers find that kids who read to a dog are more likely to stay on task and finish even challenging passages:
… Read the rest “Dogs help kids read, just by being there and listening.”Camille Rousseau, a doctoral student
WBUR Boston reports on new hope against a nasty tick-borne ailment, now that Massachusetts researchers are developing an injection against Lyme disease:
… Read the rest “Lyme disease shot to be tested next year”In their latest update, the researchers
A lilac kingfisher, as pictured in the 1800s in A Monograph of the Alcedinidae, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
It’s a bird from Sulawesi, … Read the rest “Science Art: Pl. 119 Cittura cyanotis, from A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.”
Remembrance · Carolina Eyck
She also does a mean Kate Bush cover….
The very old Anglo-Saxon poetry, the pretty darn old hurdy-gurdy, and the pretty new theremin. Goes together oddly well, unearthly aesthetic to unearthly aesthetic.
From the YouTube … Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Beowulf (excerpt) on Hurdy-Gurdy and Theremin” by Peter Pringle”
Science News picks up a really old game with a shaped stone from the desert of Jordan that might well have been the oldest chess piece ever discovered:
… Read the rest “A 1,300-year-old rook?”This roughly 1,300-year-old rectangular
Science News proves that there’s always something new to figure out – in this case, with one of the most common and worked-with metals we know: lead. New research shows after… Read the rest “Squeezing lead makes it stronger than steel.”
Glia are the cells around neurons that manufacture myelin (the insulation around nerve cells), help repair cell damage and, apparently, have something to do with creating… Read the rest “Science Art: Neurons from rat brain tissue stained green with antibody to ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1)… by Gerry Shaw, 2005”
Science News reports on a computer algorithm that has analyzed satellite imagery to detect a previously unknown humanoid figure, sketched out centuries ago, among the famous Nazca Lines… Read the rest “An AI from space has discovered a new massive drawing on the Nazca Plain.”
Science Immunology has a study that shows a low-carb, high-fat diet similar to Atkins and other keto diets seems to confer protection against flu and other lung infections:
… Read the rest “The keto diet could protect against flu.”Putting mice
It happens when we sleep, says Scientific American. It happens in cells that aren’t even neurons:
… Read the rest “Learning where memories are born.”A new study from the University of Toronto, published on-line this week in the journal
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