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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen Glia are the cells around neurons that manufacture myelin (the insulation around nerve cells), help repair cell damage and, apparently, have something […]
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 […]
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 […]
It happens when we sleep, says Scientific American. It happens in cells that aren’t even neurons: A new study from the University of Toronto, published […]
Click to embiggen Swill-pail hogs from upstate New York, as featured on the front page of Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, a delightful paper that promised “Agriculture, […]
Inverse covers an invention that should invisibly make a difference in some of the world’s hungriest communities, beating back malnutrition-based diseases with super-tiny capsules of […]
From SportDiver‘s “Ask a Marine Biologist” column comes a question about a band that might have lost some human relevance, but is still aiming for […]
Click to embiggen slightly A nerve, an electric cell, a node in a network. A place and size where electricity meets chemistry inside our bodies. […]
ABC News (Australia) shares the findings of a Mexican expedition that has discovered a trove of mammoth bones in what appears to have been a […]
Ars Technica is (or rather, researchers they’re reporting on are) quietly taking over Alexa and other smart-home devices with inaudible – and sometimes invisible – […]
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