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Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.

26 October 2015 grant 0

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The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according… Read the rest “Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.”

The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.

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Dr. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground has a lot of superlatives for Hurricane Patricia, the Category 5 storm that leapt up out of nowhere to devastate Puerto Vallarta:

Stunning, historic,

… Read the rest “The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.”

There’s a new giant tortoise species in the Galapagos.

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Science Daily reports that where scientists had thought there was only one kind of giant tortoise, there were actually two. Two kinds of giant tortoise living side by side:

The discovery

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Cuba & U.S. team up to save sharks.

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Nature points out one pleasant side effect of the growing diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba – we’re doing better than ever at protecting endangered species like… Read the rest “Cuba & U.S. team up to save sharks.”

Apatosaurus could have cracked its tail like a giant whip.

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Scientific American explores a strange anatomical detail for a very large dinosaur indeed – a whip-like tail that could actually have cracked like a whip:

The idea that Apatosaurus

… Read the rest “Apatosaurus could have cracked its tail like a giant whip.”

Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.

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from https://archive.org/details/reportongeologyo00geolrich

Behold the West.

This is the frontispiece to a scientific report, the Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto – … Read the rest “Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.”

Maybe… just maybe… we’re getting as much sleep as we always did.

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It sure doesn’t feel like it, but Scientific American has some research to suggest that all these screens and electric lights really aren’t ruining our primal, natural-born… Read the rest “Maybe… just maybe… we’re getting as much sleep as we always did.”

Self-control eats your memory.

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The Guardian reveals how exerting the willpower not to eat that next donut actually lowers your ability to remember things clearly:

In the lab, self-control – or response inhibition, as

… Read the rest “Self-control eats your memory.”

China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.

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New Scientist gives us an update on what the Chang’e 3 lander has been seeing for the last two years:

The 15-centimetre telescope is mounted on the Chang’e 3 lander, which touched down on the

… Read the rest “China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.”

Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…

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Nature tackles the “reproducibility problem” – trying to find out why some WRONG things get published as being RIGHT, but also how exactly scientists get so good at … Read the rest “Wrong Science. As if the p-hacking wasn’t bad enough…”

Science Art: Pluto as seen by New Horizons

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A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA.

Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.

There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.

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NASA’s Deep Horizons has found traces of good ol’ H2O on that dwarf planet at the fringe of the solar system:

In a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous

… Read the rest “There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.”

The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.

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Fusion goes beyond the three kinds of lies (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to… someone) and into the awful implications of trusting the data as it lies,… Read the rest “The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.”

Spacesuits made… sexy?

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Slate (not The Onion) dishes on the Victoria’s Secret designer looking at the next generation of form-fitting spacesuits:

Perhaps nobody understands the intersection of aesthetics,

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Cahokian human sacrifices picked local victims.

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Western Digs reveals the latest discovery from the metropolis of middle America – where they practiced human sacrifice with their own citizens:

But one of the many mysteries lingering

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Honorary Troubadours
  • Jonathan Coulton, Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science.
  • Laura Veirs, who knows her way around a polysyllable.
  • Thomas Dolby, godfather of scientific pop.
  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
  • Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, astrophysicist who makes music from cosmic radio sources.
  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
  • They Might Be Giants, unrelenting proponents of scientific popular song.
  • Symphonies of Science, the people who make Carl Sagan and others sing.
  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
  • Gethan Dick,6 scientists, 6 musicians, 1 great album
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