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A yellow viper with horns over its eyes.

11 January 2012 grant 0

Not a fever dream. Not a Discovery photoshop. No, it’s a newly discovered snake named Matilda:

Matilda, technically known as Atheris matildae, was named after the daughter of Tim

… Read the rest “A yellow viper with horns over its eyes.”

Really dark matter.

10 January 2012 grant 0

The fun thing, New Scientist seems to be saying, about dark matter right now is that it’s really dark. Like, really, really not a glimmer of light at all:

Yet any hopes that the nature

… Read the rest “Really dark matter.”

Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598

8 January 2012 grant 0

A medieval hunt for the “brownfish, or baleen.” Centuries before we got our light and energy by burning petroleum, we got it from whales.

This illustration comes from a series… Read the rest “Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598”

The first church of file-sharing: Kopimism.

6 January 2012 grant 0

The Swedes *really* like their torrents. They revere them. It’s not just entertainment any more – file-sharing is a religion. Literally.

BBC News:

The Church of Kopimism

… Read the rest “The first church of file-sharing: Kopimism.”

Wearing the senior citizen suit.

6 January 2012 grant 0

That’s what designers will be doing to make stores and furniture and *everything else* comfortable for aging Baby Boomer consumers. Discover looks at the way MIT is putting young… Read the rest “Wearing the senior citizen suit.”

More wolves, more trees.

5 January 2012 grant 0

File this Washington Post story under “unintended consequences,” maybe. Researchers in Yellowstone Park are noting that as wolf populations are rebounding, the number… Read the rest “More wolves, more trees.”

Electricity vs. depression.

4 January 2012 grant 0

Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression:

The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, professor in the Departments

… Read the rest “Electricity vs. depression.”

A closer look at fish feet.

2 January 2012 grant 0

Oh, tetrapod. How Science Daily says you’ve changed. The first walkers, they’re saying, may have had more to do with floods than droughts:

University of Oregon scientist

… Read the rest “A closer look at fish feet.”

Science Art: Chlamyphore tronque, Chlamyphorus truncatus, Harlan, by René Primevère Lesson

31 December 2011 grant 0


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The pink fairy armadillo wishes you a happy New Year.

So, I am sure, would R.P. Lesson.

[via Scientific Illustration]

Creatures of the Dragon Vent.

30 December 2011 grant 1

Guardian is taking a closer look at some of the strangest living things from one of the most peculiar places on Earth:

In the first ever expedition to explore and take samples from the “Dragon

… Read the rest “Creatures of the Dragon Vent.”

Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.”

29 December 2011 grant 0

PhysOrg has something new for fearful flyers to obsess over. The further an airline is from its break-even point – either losing money or making a healthy profit – the safer … Read the rest “Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.””

Last Neanderthals.

28 December 2011 grant b 0

Next thing you know, they’re going to be showing up in our back yards. But Past Horizons says the last Neanderthals were about 8,000 years younger than we thought:

Remains found near

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Blood rice.

27 December 2011 grant b 0

Not rice the cost of which is blood (I mean, not as in “blood diamonds”) but rice that PopSci says actually grows human blood:

HSA is important for treatment of a wide array of

… Read the rest “Blood rice.”

Science Art: Hickory, Norway Spruce, Chestnut, and Red Cedar & Pitch Pine, L. Prang chromolithograph.

25 December 2011 grant b 0

From the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.

Best wishes for a well-garlanded Yuletide.

Closer to Vesta.

22 December 2011 grant b 0

NASA’s gotten downright cozy with that cute little planetoid:

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping

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Honorary Troubadours
  • 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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