Food riots in five…four…three…
We’ve got until August 2013. All of us. Technology Review is teaching us how we can count down to the food riots: … Marco Lagi […]
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Science Art: Locusta Indica (from Insecten-Belustigang by A.J. Rösel von Rosenhof)
Click to embiggen. As far as I can tell, the name of the volume from which this illustration came means “The Joy of Insects.” I’m […]
X leads to cancer cure.
BBC covers the latest cure to come from recreational drugs: Ecstasy is known to kill some cancer cells, but scientists have increased its effectiveness 100-fold, […]
Science Art: Misc Pollen, by Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Click to embiggen A bouquet of flowers, and one of the deadliest poisons known to humankind. From the image’s Wikimedia Commons page: Pollen from a […]
Coral killer: It’s sewage.
Science reveals the cause of the shoreline-threatening epidemic of coral decline. It’s simple – the reefs are sick to death of our crap: Nine years […]
Preventing Alzheimer’s
It’s a terrible disease, but it doesn’t have to be as terrible as it is. Science Daily recently ran some research on simple ways to […]
Tattoo circuits
They’re temporary, sure, but these tattoos in Ars Technica are still powerful. Literally. They’re monitors made from tattooed circuits on your skin: All of the […]
SONG: Evert 1 Pipkin (penitential Man or Astro-Man? cover)
SONG: “Evert 1 Pipkin”. ARTIST: grant. Originally by Man or Astro-Man? SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. It’s not from any specific scientific study… although […]
Science Art: Dissection of it all by D.E. Eastman
Click to embiggen. A portrait of a tattoo of an anatomical engraving, each of which is beautiful enough on its own…. From D.E. Eastman, via […]
Mind over Milkshakes
The latest Bottom Line Health newsletter had the skinny on this amazing study on how our bodies react to “low-calorie” packaging. That label leaves you […]
Research opportunity: Magic mushrooms, cancer patients.
If you know anyone who’s battling cancer, Johns Hopkins would like to see if psilocybin will help: We are seeking volunteers with a diagnosis of […]
Parrot names.
Wired brings us another step closer to talking with the animals, thanks to research showing that mama parrots give their babies names: Before a green-rumped […]
Long-distance loves have tall kids.
Live Science discusses a strange bit of statistics – showing that the farther apart you and your mate are from, the taller your offspring will […]
Science Art: Walross (Brochus)… (detail), by St. Schillinger, 1833-1841
A walrus! A walrus! Seen inside and out in Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, written by Lorenz Oken. I can’t find anything out about the […]
Flowing water on Mars.
Not ice. Science Magazine shares some images of what they’re calling “the salty tears of Mars”: Using the most powerful camera ever to orbit Mars, […]