Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.
Click to embiggen. A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, […]
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Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers: […A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new […]
Bright wireless.
ZDnet shines on the newest bright idea to promise to change the way we internet… a Chinese project using lightbulbs to transmit information wirelessly: Four […]
Sleep and be cleaned, O brain.
BBC opens our eyes to a hidden process in the night, when sleep washes away toxic proteins in your brain: Scientists, who imaged the brains […]
Science Art: Plate CCCII, Fig. A.B. Capensis, from Pieter Cramer’s De Uitlandische Kapellen, 1779
A plate of geometrically arranged capensis moths, as recorded by Pieter Cramer, a fabric merchant and butterfly fan. The whole book is charming. From the […]
Remember that exploding meteorite? They just found a half-ton chunk of it.
That space rock that blew up over the Urals (and was captured on a few different cameras)… well, BBC reports that they’ve just hauled a […]
Oreos “as addictive as cocaine.”
Outside meanders out of the campground and into the chem lab, following a Connecticut College experiment determining just how strong our junk-food cravings can get. […]
Lasers make the power of tomorrow.
BBC looks ahead to a brighter future… at least as far as our energy supply is concerned. Fusion reactors have gotten one small step closer, […]
Sooty, with a chance of diamonds.
Pennies from Heaven? P’shaw! Nature looks over the vastly overvalued weather report on Saturn and Jupiter: …Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Flintridge, and […]
Zombie sex-change pollution
I’m pretty sure Nature is blazing a new B-movie trail with this report on hormone-disrupting chemicals “rising from the dead”: Environmental scientists have discovered that […]
Science Art: Holocentre à grosses épines, from Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Volume 3, 1828
A Holocentrus hastatum, or Sargocentron hastatus, or red soldier fish. They have big spines, you see. This one comes from A Natural History of Fish, […]
Utopia or catastrophe: How long do civilizations live? (And how can we find another?)
Those questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, […]
Cave artists mostly feminine.
National Geographic looks into the caves and reports on the earliest artists’ small, beautiful hands: Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand stencils […]
After the Ice Age, the farmers came
Sweden’s The Local rewrites history with a pre-Viking farm that they’re calling “shocking”: “It is completely unique,” Jan Heinerud at Västerbotten’s Museum in Umeå told […]
Save the (10-foot-long, venomous) snakes!
BBC discusses the challenges faced by Rodrigo Souza, a man who’s dedicated himself to saving an endangered species – the lethal, heat-seeking venomous snake called […]