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 […]
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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: ACTUV […]
Science Art: Imagining Mars, NASA-JPL, 1975
Click to embiggen This is what an artist in 1975 (or perhaps three artists) thought the future of Mars looked like. From the NASA-JPL description: […]
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 […]
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: Through a Web […]
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 […]
First-person dream shooters.
Live Science reports on the nightmare-killing dreams of the hardcore gamer: By contrast, soldiers who did not play video games much suffered from more emotional […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
Miniature Holy War (over huge holy library)
The Jewish nation of Israel and the Muslim nation of Jordan are duking it out, BBC News reports, over the world’s oldest Christian library: A […]
When life was more easily lost
Science Daily takes us back to an age undreamed of, when shining cities gleamed like jewels beneath the stars. Hither came archaeologists, seeking what killed […]
Tomorrow is over THERE.
SciAm looks this way and that at the way our minds work, trying to find out which way the future lies: The Pompuraawan, a remote […]
Science Art: Viperine Boa, James Francis Stephens, 1802.
Boa viperina, as seen in George Shaw’s General zoology, or systematic natural history. You can browse through the book at archive.org… if you’ve got a […]
Sacred greenhouses.
DiscoveryNews digs up evidence of American slaves holding religious rituals and conducting scientific research in the masters’ greenhouses: As they dug below a north-facing back […]