The High Martian Wind
(In all caps because that’s a title, isn’t it?) Science News reports on the work the MAVEN probe is doing mapping the movements of the […]
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Eye-tracking study: Men check out other men’s chests more than women do.
PsyPost shares research from Evolutionary Psychological Science that finds that dudes, like, check out each other’s pecs all the time (comparatively): “If having a larger […]
Science Art: Coat of Arms of Dornogovi Aimag in Mongolia
Click to embiggen A dinosaur in a coat of arms for Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. It’s from Wikimedia Commons’ “Dinosaurs in Heraldry” section. As UNESCO reminds […]
Reading the oldest story humans told… on a cave wall in Indonesia.
Nature looks at a comic book from 44,000 years ago that tells the story of a successful hunt – a story that appears to be […]
Feathered dinosaur tail found preserved in amber.
BBC reports on a brown-and-white relic that reveals what dinosaurs really looked like – the first material from a dinosaur’s body ever discovered: “This is […]
SONG: Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget
SONG: “Sleep to Remember, Stay Awake to Forget”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, 18 November 2019, “Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form,” as used […]
Egyptian mummies’ tattoos revealed: crosses, baboons and hieroglyphics
Smithsonian looks at tattoos – the tattoos of Egyptian mummies, obscured by the mummification resins but revealed by infrared light: Archaeologist Anne Austin of the […]
Science Art: Hybrid Wing Body, NASA, 2013
Click to embiggen NASA, for a while, was looking at different ways an aircraft’s body could be used to generate lift, rather than having wings […]
A week in the dark rewires the brain (and boosts hearing sensitivity)
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, […]
Dogs help kids read, just by being there and listening.
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 […]
Lyme disease shot to be tested next year
WBUR Boston reports on new hope against a nasty tick-borne ailment, now that Massachusetts researchers are developing an injection against Lyme disease: In their latest […]
Science Art: Pl. 119 Cittura cyanotis, from A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
Click to embiggen slightly A lilac kingfisher, as pictured in the 1800s in A Monograph of the Alcedinidae, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It’s […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: “Remembrance” by Carolina Eyck, from Elegies for Theremin and Voice
Remembrance · Carolina Eyck She also does a mean Kate Bush cover….
Thanksgiving Theremin: “Beowulf (excerpt) on Hurdy-Gurdy and Theremin” by Peter Pringle
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 […]
A 1,300-year-old rook?
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 […]