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Vikings left the New World because the walrus market went bust

10 August 2018 grant 0

That is, if we’re counting Greenland as the New World. OK, maybe I’m stretching here – but anyway, AP has new findings that show the Vikings left some of their westernmost… Read the rest “Vikings left the New World because the walrus market went bust”

An AI is writing for Wikipedia.

9 August 2018 grant 0

The high, whistling hiss you hear rising ever so slightly in volume in the background is the sound of white-collar jobs evaporating. Wired only begins to discuss what it means to have a bot… Read the rest “An AI is writing for Wikipedia.”

Rat lungworm disease spreads to American humans.

7 August 2018 grant 0

Can’t beat Science News‘ subhead for this story, which cautions us, if we want to avoid the meningitis-like symptoms, to “wash produce carefully and not eat raw snails… Read the rest “Rat lungworm disease spreads to American humans.”

Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather

5 August 2018 grant 0

from http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/mars/20141229_mars_marci_14.html Click to embiggen
In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images.

I found this on the Planetary Society’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather”

Lab-grown lungs have drawn breath in living pigs.

3 August 2018 grant 0

Science Alert tells us more about the researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch and their subjects – young pigs who had successful, non-rejected transplants of bioengineered… Read the rest “Lab-grown lungs have drawn breath in living pigs.”

Millipedes are medicine.

1 August 2018 grant 0

Currently, my house is being overwhelmed by millipedes – but I’m not sure I’m ready to embrace the solution suggested by this Science Daily story. Seems that lemurs … Read the rest “Millipedes are medicine.”

The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.

31 July 2018 grant 0

Science reveals the strange similarities, found by archaeologist Scott Fitzpatrick of the University of Oregon, between the very modern cryptocurrency markets and the very ancient … Read the rest “The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.”

Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary

29 July 2018 grant 0

Cecile Dachary's anatomical embroidery
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney.

Ah, tradition.

Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a logical (or, really, “-logical”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary”

SONG: Rats Get Into Everything.

28 July 2018 grant 0

SONG: “Rats Get Into Everything”.

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Nature, 11 July 2018, “Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive… Read the rest “SONG: Rats Get Into Everything.”

The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.

27 July 2018 grant 0

Nature reports on new observations of the vast, insatiable, matter-consuming maw at the heart of our galaxy that, on the bright side, has given helped prove one little corner of one of Einstein’s… Read the rest “The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.”

There’s liquid water on Mars

25 July 2018 grant 0

The ESA findings were published in Science – Italian astronomers have found evidence of a 12-mile-wide lake under the southern ice cap:

ABSTRACT:
The presence of liquid water at

… Read the rest “There’s liquid water on Mars”

Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.

22 July 2018 grant 0

from https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/2pi849/i_made_a_gif_about_how_babies_are_made_xpost_from/

This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re seeing now is words or a still picture, clicky… Read the rest “Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.”

Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.

19 July 2018 grant 0

Science Daily covers the Carnegie Institution for Science’s discovery of 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter, including a tiny, backward Jovian moon they’re calling… Read the rest “Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.”

How rats can kill a coral reef.

16 July 2018 grant 0

Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on an island. And, thanks to their appetite… Read the rest “How rats can kill a coral reef.”

SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)

16 July 2018 grant 0

SONG: “One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the June song. … Read the rest “SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)”

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