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 […]
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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 […]
Flowing water on Mars.
Not ice. Science Magazine shares some images of what they’re calling “the salty tears of Mars”: Using the most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars, […]
The birds and, uhhh….
Scientific American reveals the emotional life of bees. Yes, insects do have emotional lives: Recently, studies by Geraldine Wright and her colleagues at Newcastle University […]
The Twitter trenches
Time reveals more of the Pentagon’s social media warfare research: The new Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program was submitted under the Defense Advanced […]
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: What is more interesting […]
Goblin holes!
Der Spiegel probes the long-buried secrets of the Erdstalls – Bavaria’s ancient underground mazes: At least 700 of these chambers have been found in Bavaria […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Doctor dolphin
Georgetown University researchers want to know why – and how – dolphins are so good at healing themselves: A dolphin’s ability to heal quickly from […]
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: […]
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 […]