SONG: The Shape of Your Words
SONG: “The Shape of Your Words.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Kiki or bouba? In search of language’s… Read the rest “SONG: The Shape of Your Words”
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Science Art: Walross (Brochus)… (detail), by St. Schillinger, 1833-1841
A walrus! A walrus! Seen inside and out in Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, written by Lorenz Oken.
I can’t find anything out about the artist, lithographer St. Schillinger,… Read the rest “Science Art: Walross (Brochus)… (detail), by St. Schillinger, 1833-1841”
Flowing water on Mars.
Not ice. Science Magazine shares some images of what they’re calling “the salty tears of Mars”:
… Read the rest “Flowing water on Mars.”Using the most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars, McEwen and his colleagues
The birds and, uhhh….
Scientific American reveals the emotional life of bees. Yes, insects do have emotional lives:
… Read the rest “The birds and, uhhh….”Recently, studies by Geraldine Wright and her colleagues at Newcastle University in the
The Twitter trenches
Time reveals more of the Pentagon’s social media warfare research:
… Read the rest “The Twitter trenches”The new Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program was submitted under the Defense Advanced Research
Cleaning the world’s plate.
A new U.N. report (over at Scientific American) shows we’re actually wasting 300 million Hummer H2s’ weight of food every year:
… Read the rest “Cleaning the world’s plate.”What is more interesting is how the food is wasted
Goblin holes!
Der Spiegel probes the long-buried secrets of the Erdstalls – Bavaria’s ancient underground mazes:
… Read the rest “Goblin holes!”At least 700 of these chambers have been found in Bavaria alone, along
Science Art: Bulbi olfattorii, by Camillio Golgi, 1875
From the mustachioed microscope-gazer who gave us the method (for staining specimens), the receptor (inside our tendons) and the bodies (inside our cells) comes a hypnotic look inside… Read the rest “Science Art: Bulbi olfattorii, by Camillio Golgi, 1875”
The math of the madness of crowds.
Ten percent. That’s all it takes to start a mob or to sell a coup d’etat. ScienceBlog digs up the numbers we need to make a change. Once 10 percent accept a thing as a rock-solid … Read the rest “The math of the madness of crowds.”
“Trojan asteroid”? More like puppy dog….
The IBT (and a bunch of other news outlets) are making this discovery – an asteroid that’s been orbiting Earth – are making it sound like a deadly trick. When really the… Read the rest ““Trojan asteroid”? More like puppy dog….”
The human problem: long life and shrinking brains.
BBC News uncovers a strange complex of problems that humans have and chimps don’t. We get old. On the one hand, we live a long time. And on the other, our brains shrink:
… Read the rest “The human problem: long life and shrinking brains.”Anthropologist
Doctor dolphin
Georgetown University researchers want to know why – and how – dolphins are so good at healing themselves:
… Read the rest “Doctor dolphin”A dolphin’s ability to heal quickly from a shark bite with
Fame more than kindness.
A sad fact from Science Daily – kids’ TV shows are teaching them that it’s better to be famous than it is to be kind:
… Read the rest “Fame more than kindness.”On a list of 16 values, fame jumped from the 15th spot,
Science Art: Julbock, Nordisk familjebok, 1910.
This is a Julbock – a “Yule goat” – from a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Song delay
What, it’s the 23rd and there’s no song?
Yes, it’s true. I’m moving (yet again) and have been unable to record between the packing and unpacking. Expect one shortly.… Read the rest “Song delay”