The BBC has video up of romancing mosquitoes creating their high, keening love songs:
… Read the rest “Love is… mosquitoes buzzing in harmony.”Males and females each have their own characteristic flight tone – which they create by beating
This seems natural to me, but also seems like the kind of thing that drives more literally minded thinkers out of their heads. A University of Rochester neuroscientist has just found that… Read the rest “Hard Decision? Don’t think about it.”
Taken at the Lockheed facility, the image shows “the optical metering truss and secondary baffle.”
And important-looking people in orange jumpsuits, … Read the rest “Science Art: Early Stages of Hubble Construction, 1980.”
New Scientist sheds light on a deep-sea mystery – a bizarre fish eye that mirrors rather than lenses:
… Read the rest “The Mirror-eyes of the Spookfish.”The most important source of light at that depth is other creatures, as 80% emit
Chumbawumba are, of course, best known for that inexplicable “I Get Knocked Down” song. They’re actually a keenly politically aware group of protest poets, about … Read the rest ““Charlie” by Chumbawumba. A Darwinian folk song.”
PopSci believes that pink iguanas are real. Because, as it turns out, pink iguanas are real!
… Read the rest “Pink Iguana!”Even after the first pink iguana sighting came in 1986, no scientists bothered to actually examine
The same mysterious civilization that left us the lines and inspirational giant pyramids also left puzzling piles of human heads… and PhysOrg.com reports that the more we learn … Read the rest “Trophy Heads of Nazca.”
No! Say it ain’t so! The Overcoming Bias blog has this study from the Journal of Experimental Psychology that shows that interesting details interfere with learning:
… Read the rest “Be Boring.”In both experiments,
Charles R. Knight is a scientific illustrator more people need to know about. A paleoartist, even.
He brought dinosaurs (and other things) to life.
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008:
… Read the rest “Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs”There is still a lot we do not know about the basics of energy systems dealing with photons,
A desert-dwelling fox of North Africa.
For Foxing Day.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here… Read the rest “Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International”
Bet your iPhone can’t do this…. UCLA scientists have found a way to rig an ordinary cell phone, an LED, a light filter and some wiring together, Wired reports, into a cheap and… Read the rest “Cell Phone Blood Scanner”
Here, something pretty for your Yule: How Luigi Colani designed the future.
From steam trains to flying boats.
Spacecraft like ginger flowers and orange… Read the rest “Future By Colani.”
SONG: “Isopods In My Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Antarctica Has More Species than Galapagos”… Read the rest “SONG: Isopods In My Aquarium.”
Sounds grim, but New Scientist says it’s true. The more intelligent soldiers were the most likely to die in combat:
… Read the rest “Smart Soldiers Die First.”The unprecedented demands of the second world war – fought more
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