Tanzi is a rock star.
Boston Globe profiles the geneticist and Alzheimer’s expert who played organ on Aerosmith’s last album:
… Read the rest “Tanzi is a rock star.”It was 2009 when Dr. Rudy Tanzi was asked to appear in a GQ magazine
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Rapping inside an MRI. (On freestyle neurology.)
Nature reveals something fascinating about what happens when a creative brain turns on the creativity:
… Read the rest “Rapping inside an MRI. (On freestyle neurology.)”Freestyle rapping — in which a performer improvises a song by stringing together
Science Art: Diurnal Motion of the Celestial Sphere, from General Astrophysics by Jerzy Stodolkiewicz, 1973
The dome of the heavens, 1970s-style.
Found in a very special pdf in archive.org – a book on how we can look out at the universe and figure out what we’re seeing.
Carnivorous sponges found. (As if you didn’t have enough to worry about.)
Nature goes deep, deep into the subconscious pit of our fears… or at least the Pacific Ocean… to present the underwater answer to the Venus flytrap:
… Read the rest “Carnivorous sponges found. (As if you didn’t have enough to worry about.)”Which is where MBARI’s remotely
Why is dissonance noisy?
Nature explores the strange mathematics of yuck – the neurological reason why we find dissonant music hard to listen to:
… Read the rest “Why is dissonance noisy?”Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, made up of notes
‘The Bloop’ identified.
I’m not sure when this happened, but NOAA thinks they’ve finally identified the mysterious underwater sound known as ‘The Bloop’:
… Read the rest “‘The Bloop’ identified.”The broad spectrum sounds
Confined to a wheelchair, but still rides a bike…
Guardian has some unusual insight into the human brain, thanks to a man whose Parkinson’s has left him confined to a wheelchair, but who is still able to ride a bicycle:
… Read the rest “Confined to a wheelchair, but still rides a bike…”This phenomenon
Science Art: World’s Weirdest: Seagulls Help Sunfish, National Geographic.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move.
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NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.
ITProPortal.com reports on a heightened state of alert in the halls of the government offices in charge of the very biggest missiles there are… because somebody just stole a kinda… Read the rest “NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.”
What does the zombie-making fungus fear? Its own parasite.
Science Tech Daily says in the parasite world, it’s turtles all the way down. No matter how much of a *parasite* you are… like the brain-eating cordyceps fungus, for example…… Read the rest “What does the zombie-making fungus fear? Its own parasite.”
Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is messing up a perfectly neat theory about how the universe fits together:
… Read the rest “Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)”Supersymmetry, or SUSY, has gained popularity as a way to explain some
Bizarre penis shaved by scientists
I can’t beat Science Nordic’s headline. They’re talking about some tragically vicious beetle anatomy:
… Read the rest “Bizarre penis shaved by scientists”The many spines on the penis are just as nasty, sharp and destructive
Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.
UC Berkeley looks back to an old (and abandoned) method for making explosives and tweaks it to make renewable biofuels:
… Read the rest “Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.”Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel
Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927
We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm.
These are his aardvarks.
Earth-pigs.
After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally,… Read the rest “Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927”
Little things. Big pictures.
Nikon (through Wired) presents some of the most amazing windows onto the microscopic world ever seen:
… Read the rest “Little things. Big pictures.”Super-close-ups of garlic, snail fossils, stinging nettle, bat embryos, bone cancer