Mmm. Borer beetles. Or, more precisely, Wallace’s long-horn beetle. Beetle-obsessed millionaire James Thomson’s book is on archive.org, but I found it via [Scientific Illustration].
I know I already kinda wrote a song about this (and isopods), but still – the Mother Nature Network has joined the voices marveling over […]
The New Republic looks at the science of choice… and the mental costs of not being able to afford much: In the 1990s, social psychologists […]
Not people hunting chimpanzees, Scientific American reports, but chimpanzees hunting monkeys: According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology, this […]
BBC reports on a team of senior heroes, coming out of retirement – literally – to fight the radiation at Fukushima power station: The retired […]
Scientists studying Mexico’s family of sideshow entertainers – all of whom are covered head-to-foot in hair – and similar family in China have made a […]
Click to embiggen This is an anomalocaridid – a really big, really old shrimp-like critter – named Laggania cambria. These were as big as it […]
Time asks probing questions of the the researchers who studied all the porn on the internet: Why did you decide to analyze online porn searches? […]
This ink-on-paper drawing of Saturn’s moon is one of the 70 pieces in the new “NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration” exhibit at the National Air […]
Historic video: That’s the second-to-last shuttle mission. Ever. [via Washington Post]
Digital Journal reports that the Large Hadron Collider has another superlative to stick in its yearbook. As well as being “most likely to succeed” and […]
Click to embiggen It’s a party! I can’t tell if those are balloons or knobkerries. Either way, windows would have been broken… were there windows […]
BBC brings back our belief in Santa Claus with an update from the Arctic Circle… that reindeer can see ultraviolet light: “If you’re a bumblebee, […]
The aptly named PLoS blog “The Panic Virus” brings together a few disturbing strands of information about the anti-vaccination movement and the growing threat of […]
OnOrbit Alpha wants all you really long-sighted business & organizational experts out there to know the Pentagon’s research arm wants your help in conquering space: […]
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