Marine biology from the Diesel Age. Crowded organisms, barely visible through the equipment. (And I’m talking about the researchers.)
Photo from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries… Read the rest “Science Art: Examining Plankton Haul, Plankton Hydrographic Cruise, Research Vessel Atlantis by O.E. Sette, 1935”
MSNBC (among other sources) reports on the amorphous, multiform, shuddering things that live and ooze in a crawling chaos across the deepest ocean floor:
… Read the rest “Living shoggoths.”Gigantic amoebas have been found
Must’ve been something to see. The Telegraph gives a new picture of what it was like when hundreds of dinosaurs went a-walking:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur migration”The journey would have taken place on a seasonal basis
Lando. Lando Calrissian. Cloud miner. Sounds like a great space opera profession, doesn’t it? But National Geographic is talking about exploiting the atmosphere for fuel:
… Read the rest “Air miner.”…[S]cience
The Daily is reporting on a revolution. DIY researchers are leaving the academy to take a punk rock approach to science:
… Read the rest “Garage biology. (Like garage rock.)”Three years ago, [Mackensie] Cowell and his counterpart Jason Bobe,
The artist and writer William Beebe is better known for his deep sea explorations than his wattle portraiture. He studied at Columbia, but spent too much time exploring and collecting specimens… Read the rest “Science Art: Wattles of Cock Tragopans, by William Beebe, from A Monograph on Pheasants, 1918-1922.”
New Scientist looks at where and how business happens – and reveals that out of 37 million global companies, it’s only a very few who call the shots:
… Read the rest “The 147 corporations that run everything.”the study, by a trio of complex
From around 900 CE, in a boat on Scotland’s west coast, comes a dead Viking warrior. BBC reports on the most complete Norse grave site found in the UK:
… Read the rest “A Viking burial.”Archaeologist Dr Hannah Cobb said
That’s the use of Twitter for divination purposes. And, Nature says, is now an official field of government intelligence research:
… Read the rest “Spies turn to Twitomancy”The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects
BBC says the disease, once thought practically eradicated, is now moving out into China from Pakistan:
… Read the rest “Polio spreads.”Polio has been found in China for the first time since 1999 after spreading from Pakistan,
So reports LiveScience’s “Bad Medicine” columnist Christopher Wanjek, writing about the woman who was the world’s oldest:
… Read the rest “Herring AND good genes can keep you young.”The 115-year-old Hendrikje van
In 1867, the typewriter was a ridiculous leap in technology.
The editor of Punch anticipated the next step:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “Good News for Bad Writers” (The Typewriter, Punch, September1867)”“Writing Superseded. — Mr. Pratt, of Alabama, is the
So time travelers, don’t say we didn’t warn you. Reuters reports that the king of carnivores was even fiercer than we imagined:
… Read the rest “T-rex hungrier, bigger than thought.”Using three-dimensional laser scans and computer
And, according to Scientific American, when I “errr” and “hmmm” too. Those weird verbal tics help children learn:
… Read the rest “It makes, uhhh, more sense. When I, ummm…”Such vocal hesitations, called disfluencies,
You wouldn’t think it would be emotional, but as this CBS report illustrates, that depends on if it’s the first time you’ve held hands with your paralyzed boyfriend… Read the rest “Touching robot fingers.”
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