New Scientist has the less-than-cheerful discovery that a plastic-based teabag will release *billions* of microplastic particles as it steeps:
… Read the rest “Microplastics in your tea, from the teabag.”A Canadian team found that steeping a
SONG: “Adria”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science, 6 September 2019, “Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe,” as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: Adria”
An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain Review.
The geometry of this geology is marvelous. I … Read the rest “Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868”
Science News shares a small but disturbing Belgian study that found solid particles of air pollutants around developing babies in the womb:
… Read the rest “Air pollution can leave soot inside pregnant mothers’ placentas.”Samples of placenta collected after women in
Growing Produce has a story that strikes me as super weird, about the first-ever commercial fungicide designed to be carried onto crops by bees:
… Read the rest “EPA approves a fungicide distributed *by bees*.”The EPA has recently approved Bee Vectoring
TW, as they say.
New Scientist has some hard numbers on some difficult truths, offering data on just how many women lost their virginity in a way that they considered “not voluntary”… Read the rest “CDC report: One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time”
A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea of organ systems from, really. Trying … Read the rest “Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696”
Space.com has photos and background on B333, an expandable and expansive zero-gravity habitat for the next generation of space explorers. Bottom line is it’s pretty big:
… Read the rest “Billionaire Bigelow’s Big Balloon – inflatable space station is open for visitors.”The space
LA Times plunges into a chemical and artistic riddle – how can we restore fading Day-Glo paintings when the formula for Saturn Yellow remains a trade secret?:
… Read the rest “I don’t know, how *do* you make Saturn Yellow?”[Conservator Kamila]
The Independent puzzles over a biological riddle – a strange microbe that doesn’t need oxygen or sunlight to get by. Instead, it thrives deep underground living off fool’s… Read the rest “What breathes sulfur, eats fool’s gold and could show us where life came from?”
Nature mourns the apparent loss of India’s first lunar lander, which stopped transmitting as it descended to the Moon’s south pole:
… Read the rest “India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.”Mission control at the Indian Space Research
Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t.
This is not that Category 5 storm. This was apparently uploaded… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane”
Science reveals the Atlantis-like story of Greater Adria, a continent the size of Greenland that vanished 140 million years ago, not under the sea but below the slowly moving continent … Read the rest “Geologists explore a lost continent hidden under Southern Europe.”
Nature has a fascinating piece of research (with great graphics, so please click through) on how exactly public opinions can be molded by a few strategically placed bots on a social media… Read the rest “How a social network can be gerrymandered – and how that can affect our decision-making (and real-life voting).”
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It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks along the bottom using… Read the rest “Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)”
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