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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
That’s the use of Twitter for divination purposes. And, Nature says, is now an official field of government intelligence research: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects […]
BBC says the disease, once thought practically eradicated, is now moving out into China from Pakistan: Polio has been found in China for the first […]
So reports LiveScience’s “Bad Medicine” columnist Christopher Wanjek, writing about the woman who was the world’s oldest: The 115-year-old Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, who held the […]
Click to embiggen In 1867, the typewriter was a ridiculous leap in technology. The editor of Punch anticipated the next step: “Writing Superseded. — Mr. […]
So time travelers, don’t say we didn’t warn you. Reuters reports that the king of carnivores was even fiercer than we imagined: Using three-dimensional laser […]
And, according to Scientific American, when I “errr” and “hmmm” too. Those weird verbal tics help children learn: Such vocal hesitations, called disfluencies, tend to […]
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 […]
PhysOrg uncovers tantalizing traces of terrifying prehistoric predator – a giant squid that hunted ichthyosaurs: But the fossils at the [Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada] […]
Found on Wikimedia Commons. It moves water. It moves me.
MedicalXpress reveals a new source for nerve cells without stem cells – making neurons from liver cells: Fully mature liver cells from laboratory mice have […]
None of this “invisible to X-rays” or “invisible in the infrared” business for the University of Texas. When they use carbon nanotubes to make something […]
Dateline: Washington state. 3news reports on a paleontological poacher pinched purloining a prehistoric proto-pig: A Longview, Washington, man accused of digging up the skull of […]
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