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Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.

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People seem to like caissons (pressurized chambers used to build foundations underwater), or so my search referrals tell me.

Well, here’s what working in a caisson can do to you –… Read the rest “Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.”

Zookeepers baffled by spooked baboons.

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BBC says that’s what’s going on in the Netherlands. The baboons were terrified, but no one knows why;

The behaviour started on Monday evening, and only now are the 112 baboons

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Watch your dog’s left eyebrow. That’s how they say they’re glad to see you.

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Doctor Dolittle… well, not exactly. But The Telegraph reads dogs’ faces to see if they’re happy to see you:

Animal behaviour experts have found the animals’ emotions

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A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease – almost here.

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BBC reports on the struggle to develop an early blood test for Alzheimer’s:

A technique published in the journal Genome Biology showed differences in the tiny fragments of genetic

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Controlling rats with OUR BRAINS.

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ExtremeTech introduces the technology of the supervillain – the brain-to-brain interface (BBI), a new device that lets humans control animals with their thoughts:

Simply by thinking

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Grace makes the meal taste better (and singing improves the birthday cake).

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The Telegraph celebrates the effect rituals have on our appetites, with research that shows saying grace makes the meal taste better:

The study, by researchers from Minnesota University,

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Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.

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FT.com introduces us to the genteel, cultured Fabiola Gianotti – accomplished pianist, paleontologist’s daughter, coffee enthusiast, trained classicist… and… Read the rest “Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.”

Science Art: First test flight with an aerostat at Annonay

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From “Collection 476, 1re série” collector cards showing the history of ballooning. They were printed in France sometime before 1900. The Montgolfier Brothers flew their… Read the rest “Science Art: First test flight with an aerostat at Annonay”

A book that’s physically older than Jesus.

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Archaeologists in China have found a collection of bamboo texts – including copies of the I Ching, Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius and other classics. New York Times reports… Read the rest “A book that’s physically older than Jesus.”

Climate change real-estate boom: Buy high. Really high.

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Fast Company looks to the heights to chronicle a potential climate change real estate boom:

Scientists and politicians have even come to the conclusion that whole countries such as Mauritius

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Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.

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In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.

It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.”

A tsunami on the surface of the sun.

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BBC has video footage taken by NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, two satellites that have just filmed a tsunami on the surface of the … Read the rest “A tsunami on the surface of the sun.”

New language being born in Australia

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I heard this on NPR, but it’s been doing the rounds lately – as all happy news should. Rather than mourning the death of yet another language, linguists are now celebrating the… Read the rest “New language being born in Australia”

You don’t get bitten because you’re so sweet. Well, not exactly….

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Smithsonian explains summer’s great mystery – why mosquitoes find some victims sweeter:

An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for mosquitoes,

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Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.

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Alternet (of course) spreads the news that researchers studying our earliest ancestors have collected some intriguing proof that cave painters were tripping:

Their thesis intriguingly

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