Science Art: Bâtonnets
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.
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Robot chef!
New Scientist is living in The Jetsons:
… Read the rest “Robot chef!”“If you want to interpret and understand everyday activities using vision data, it’s very complicated, error-prone, and resource
What is it?
CNN, not normally an outlet for science news, covers the mysterious story of a brand new bug at London’s Natural History Museum:
… Read the rest “What is it?”The museum has more than 28 million insect species
Just don’t put their faces on bubblegum cards.
Science News reveals the latest success story in political prediction – from a guy using tools from baseball picking:
… Read the rest “Just don’t put their faces on bubblegum cards.”He creates his baseball predictions by matching current players
Gators got a UFO.
Discovery News has a weird little story about a weird little vehicle coming up out of the swamp. I suppose you could call it a UFFO – a University of Florida Flying Object:
… Read the rest “Gators got a UFO.”Subrata Roy,
A Cowardly and Superstitious Lot.
I can’t say anything more about SciAm’s interview on the science of Batman. The article speaks for itself:
… Read the rest “A Cowardly and Superstitious Lot.”What’s a realistic training regimen?
I didn’t give
Science Art: Butterfly Tongue
Is it smiling at you?
From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Anti-evolutionary Bayou Seeping Into US Politics.
So New Scientist tells us that the forces that believe God made Man (but a monkey never provided the glue) are celebrating an Intelligent Design victory in Louisiana that could have national… Read the rest “Anti-evolutionary Bayou Seeping Into US Politics.”
PENGUIN: ACQUIRED.
Technology Review closes in on an interesting application for spooky biometric computer systems – using Big Brother security software to identify penguins:
… Read the rest “PENGUIN: ACQUIRED.”The software involved–originally
Beijing 2008: Robot drones and Segway police.
Guests at the Summer Olympics might get an idea of what “technological superiority” means nowadays, according to AP’s report on China’s new security measures… Read the rest “Beijing 2008: Robot drones and Segway police.”
Worms. Inside you. Making you better.
That’s the big idea behind this New York Times piece about the doctor who gave himself hookworms to see if they’d cure his allergies:
… Read the rest “Worms. Inside you. Making you better.”He left the wrap on for several days to make
Music’s in the genes.
Scientific American presents a scathing indictment of my forebears as it reveals a link between genetics and musicality:
… Read the rest “Music’s in the genes.”In what the researchers called the first study of its kind, they
Science Art: Saturn’s Aurora
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An ultraviolet image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the vast, violent, invisible auroras around the huge planet’s poles. Like the auroras… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn’s Aurora”
Fireworks.
Or the next best thing: New Scientist’s gallery of supernova remnants.
Here’s the most recent photo:
Click to embiggen; photo credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team
Mushrooms and meaning.
Johns Hopkins researchers are getting profoundly trippy, PhysOrg reports, in a research project that found psychedelic mushrooms can have long-lasting spiritual effects:
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