Beautiful machine for skilled labor.
You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org.
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Humans weren’t best friends with dogs first, says the Discoveryon blog. Archaeologists have found evidence that foxes may have been our pets first:
… Read the rest “Why thank you, Br’er Fox….”Scientists analysing remains
Wired unearths the story of a gold-prospecting math whiz… sorry, geological statistician… who cracked the scratch-off ticket code:
… Read the rest “Lotto breaker.”The trick itself is ridiculously simple.
I’m sure MSNBC isn’t *trying* to be a downer when they report that too much optimism is bad for cancer patients’ chances of recovery:
… Read the rest “Keep looking up. But not THAT high.”The problem, some experts say, is
WaPo and Slate give us the scoop on the Deepwater Horizon aftermath. Why was the Exxon Valdez so much more of a mess? Because the warm, murky Gulf of Mexico is germier:
… Read the rest “Germs against oil.”But even if we halted human
Migrating robins have something better than magnets in their heads, Wired reports. They’ve got quantum sensors in their eyes:
… Read the rest “Quantum eyes.”European robins may maintain quantum entanglement
The whole collection of Azerbaijan collectors’ stamps is full of scientific illustration treasure – butterflies, dirigibles, mushrooms….
And “treasure”… Read the rest “Science Art: Azerbaijan stamp, 500m – Marine gastropod Corolla spectabilis, May 1995.”
BBC paints a sweet, fossilized portrait of pterosaur family life:
… Read the rest “Mother and child, 100 million B.C.”A pterosaur has been found in China beautifully preserved with an egg.
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was
Vladimir Nabokov. Modern literary genius. Darling of the New York Times. And now, certified brilliant entomological theorist:
… Read the rest “Nabokov knew his butterflies.”There were several plausible hypotheses for how the butterflies
LiveScience joins forces with Peggy Orenstein to take on the “pink princess” culture and what it’s doing to our daughters:
… Read the rest “Pink, but not pretty.”You spoke to scientists about how this affects
Edge magazine has rounded up some pretty impressive brainy folks – from J. Craig Ventner to Brian Eno, P.Z. Myers and Martin Rees – and asked them all a single question: What … Read the rest “Cognitive Toolkit Improvement”
SONG: “Leatherback, Crossing.”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Secret voyages of leatherback… Read the rest “SONG: Leatherback, Crossing.”
Harry Grant Dart was an illustrator, newspaperman and creator of “The Explorigator” comic strip… and a man in the suffragette era who evidently had… Read the rest “Science Art: Aerostatic Cabriolet of Tomorrow, by Harry Grant Dart, c. 1905.”
New Scientist has microscopic video of what malaria looks like bursting into a blood cell:
… Read the rest “What infection looks like.”Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia,
Nature breaks the news to us that small, fierce prehistoric predator Eoraptor – the “dawn-predator” – might have been a plant-eater all along:
… Read the rest “A gentler Eoraptor”Many palaeontologists
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