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How mosquitoes dodge the rain.

7 June 2012 grant 0

Nature opens a window on a thing that has always puzzled me, and probably anyone who’s been in mosquito country in the rainy season. How do they do it? How do those persistent little … Read the rest “How mosquitoes dodge the rain.”

Worship of the White Shaman

6 June 2012 grant 0

Discover gets some of that OLD time Texas religion, decoding who, what and how the White Shaman of the Rio Grande really worshipped:

The land is barbed with cacti, teeming with rattlesnakes,

… Read the rest “Worship of the White Shaman”

Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?

5 June 2012 grant 0

Nature asks a question that gets more peculiar the more one considers it. A Japanese researcher looking at tree rings from two ancient cedars found unmistakable traces of a giant burst of… Read the rest “Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?”

Grandad’s got a better password than you, kiddo.

4 June 2012 grant 0

In all likelihood, that is. New Scientist doesn’t actually *know* your password, of course. But they know that if you’re over 55, you’re more likely to be secure than… Read the rest “Grandad’s got a better password than you, kiddo.”

Science Art: Artist concept of proposed mission to the Jupiter system, NASA/JPL, 2009

3 June 2012 grant 0

This is concept art originally painted to help NASA and ESA imagine what it might be like to explore Jupiter and its moons Ganymede and Europa – part of push to explore “outer … Read the rest “Science Art: Artist concept of proposed mission to the Jupiter system, NASA/JPL, 2009”

Renaissance grave reveals what it takes to kill a vampire.

1 June 2012 grant 0

LiveScience unearths a scientific controversy over what seems to be a plague victim’s corpse defaced by vampire hunters:

The controversy begins with a mass grave of 16th-century

… Read the rest “Renaissance grave reveals what it takes to kill a vampire.”

“Splashdown Successful!”

31 May 2012 grant 0

Elon Musk celebrates his historic spacecraft’s return home – in less than 140 characters.

So the anarchists are killing scientists now…

30 May 2012 grant 0

I’m getting this from Nature, although New Scientist has also been covering it. A group called “the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary… Read the rest “So the anarchists are killing scientists now…”

Cannabis pills not effective against MS.

29 May 2012 grant 0

BBC breaks some not-terribly-encouraging news from the stoner desk. Neuromedical researchers have found marijuana-based meds don’t slow the progress multiple sclerosis:

Lead

… Read the rest “Cannabis pills not effective against MS.”

Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974

28 May 2012 grant 0


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Poppies.

For Memorial Day.

Funny how that saturated color automatically looks so 1970s now, when all they were trying to do was represent things precisely.

[via archive.org… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974”

Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.

27 May 2012 grant 2

Alexander Anderson, medical doctor and illustrator, is remembered as America’s first wood engraver. He helped Samuel Mitchill explain what that was wriggling on the end of the … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.”

Pesticides make bees… picky.

25 May 2012 grant 0

PhysOrg finds something weird about the nicotine-based pesticides that seem to be making trouble for bees. Neonicotinoids make them picky eaters:

The UC San Diego biologists focused

… Read the rest “Pesticides make bees… picky.”

MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)

24 May 2012 grant 0

MIT’s Technology Review is not a publication ordinarily given to hyperbole. So it’s a little distracting when their web desk declares that Facebook is heading for an implosion… Read the rest “MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)”

Putty fixes bones like chair legs.

23 May 2012 grant 0

The health desk at The Atlantic might be looking a little bit like a wood shop, thanks to their reporting on the medical marvels of bone putty:

Researchers at the University of Georgia Regenerative

… Read the rest “Putty fixes bones like chair legs.”

Turning pollution into gold.

22 May 2012 grant 0

PhysOrg gets me all het up over this modern-day alchemist who’s figured out how to transmute greenhouse gases into useful materials… and energy:

Making carbon-based products

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  • 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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