TechDirt is a democracy blog.
Have I cited TechDirt here before? I’m pretty sure I have. Anyway, in a sign of the weird times today, they’ve just come out and […]
Science
100 days with a titanium heart
Nature reports on a new record from the transplant waiting list, with an Australian patient who spent 100 days waiting for a donor organ with […]
Science Art: Opportunities for Design & Development Engineers…, 1966.
This is the illustration from a full-page ad from the Hughes Aircraft Company in the Jan/Feb 1966 issue of Information Display magazine. This isn’t selling […]
The pigbutt worm: a marine mystery.
National Geographic marvels at a recently discovered sea creature named, due to its bizarrely voluptuous curves and clefts, the pigbutt worm: Such was the case […]
AI to translate cat faces.
Nature: Scientific Reports wants you to know why your cat is making faces at you. They’ve published a study that uses artificial intelligence to decipher […]
Science Art: The Great Paris Reflector, 1898.
This is an image from The New Astronomy, a textbook of space sciences I found on archive.org. It’s one of what was at the time […]
A vaccine for pancreatic cancer.
I grew up learning (rightly or wrongly) that pancreatic cancer was “one of the bad ones,” fast-moving and tough to beat. Now, Science Friday is […]
Science Art: Lepiota Echinellus, 1887
You probably shouldn’t eat these. This is an illustration of a Lepiota mushroom from the Bulletin de la Société botanique de France. The genus includes […]
So just how much life are we already spreading into space?
Mashable wants to know (along with NASA researchers) just what kind of critters are sticking to the International Space Station or surrounding it like an […]
A vaccine against salmonella
Food Safety Magazine reports on University of Florida researchers who are closing in on a medicine that could prevent potentially lethal, antibiotic-resistant food poisoning … […]
Science Art: La Esperanza Del Río, Micrasterias Truncata, Turberas De Peñayerre
This is a star algae, Micrasterias truncata, as photographed very recently and uploaded to the Flickr Commons collection, “Encyclopedia of Life images.” The description for […]
NASA Mars rover spots “possibilities for microbial habitability.”
Mashable carries news from NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has found traces that ancient ripples left on primordial lake beds, which prove that far from being […]
Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.
This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections. It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t […]
Whalesong is structured like a language.
Astrobiology reports on a cross-disciplinary study that has found that the song of humpback whales has the same distinct mathematical structure as a human language: […]
Women’s history found under immigrant asylum floorboards
Australia’s ABC reports on clues to a hidden past being found under the floor of a former immigration depot and women’s asylum, shedding new light […]