Grapefruit vs. bugs.
NPR’s reporting sounds almost too good to be true as it extols the virtues of an all-natural, edible grapefruit extract that repels mosquitoes, ticks and bedbugs:
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Eyes of stone.
LiveScience takes a hard look at the stony gaze of the chiton:
… Read the rest “Eyes of stone.”While scientists had discovered the hundreds of eye-like structures on the surface of this armored mollusk, called a chiton,
Science Art: Chiton from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s
A pair of chitons, playing catch. Or sleeping. Or enjoying a good meal. Or singing a chiton opera.
With chitons, it’s very hard to tell the difference.
The image is… Read the rest “Science Art: Chiton from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s”
Buck-toothed demon.
Yeah, National Geographic is really helping paleontologists rehabilitate the popular image of dinosaurs as mindless killers with the latest… well… actually, I guess the… Read the rest “Buck-toothed demon.”
Northern Lights… from above.
This video was shot out of the window of a night flight from San Francisco to Paris, one frame every two miles:
Do you see it once you feel it?
Researchers have finally found an empirical answer, PhysOrg reports, to a centuries-old conceptual puzzler known as Molyneux’s question. If a person who’s been blind since… Read the rest “Do you see it once you feel it?”
War games.
DVice.com fulfills that long-held suspicion (in some circles) about videogames and military recruiting with a report on new games actually produced by the Pentagon:
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Science Art: Imagining Mars, NASA-JPL, 1975
This is what an artist in 1975 (or perhaps three artists) thought the future of Mars looked like.
From the NASA-JPL description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Imagining Mars, NASA-JPL, 1975”“Life on Mars” was envisioned
Davy Jones’ shipping containers.
You might have heard the phrase “acceptable losses” being tossed around in corporate contexts, but Singularity Hub’s taken a closer look at a shipping phenomenon … Read the rest “Davy Jones’ shipping containers.”
Go find Genghis Khan. Yes, YOU.
Washington Post extends an invitation to you – and to everyone else – to search for the tomb of the Mongol emperor:
… Read the rest “Go find Genghis Khan. Yes, YOU.”Through a Web site called Field Expedition Mongolia, which
Mangroves save us. (If we save them.)
Nature reports on a hidden side of wetlands conservation, with the discovery that those snorkel-rooted mangrove trees – which are getting pretty scarce most places – are … Read the rest “Mangroves save us. (If we save them.)”
First-person dream shooters.
Live Science reports on the nightmare-killing dreams of the hardcore gamer:
… Read the rest “First-person dream shooters.”By contrast, soldiers who did not play video games much suffered from more emotional distress and a frozen sense
The jug or the loaf?
“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” is a question for paleontologists. Anthropologists ask a much more vexing question about bread and beer – it’s all… Read the rest “The jug or the loaf?”
Science Art: Esbene, by Samuel de Champlain, c. 1602
Image from the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, who found it in Brief discours des choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage á reconneues aux Indes occidentales… Read the rest “Science Art: Esbene, by Samuel de Champlain, c. 1602”
Obama’s dead dolphin problem.
The U.S. government would rather you not, according to Digital Journal, worry your caring little head about the dead dolphins washing up in the Gulf of Mexico. So let’s just not talk… Read the rest “Obama’s dead dolphin problem.”