A tiny Golden Mean.
Science Daily looks at the hidden symmetry lying inside all things where we can’t see it:
… Read the rest “A tiny Golden Mean.”Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation
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Science Art: Cormorant, by Bob Hines.
These are cormorants – the birds that swim underwater to catch fish. I fell in love with cormorants reading Ping as a little boy (on the mighty Yangtse, boat-dwellers put rings around… Read the rest “Science Art: Cormorant, by Bob Hines.”
Science Art: “A Pigeon Fancier’s Manual,” by Ruth Padel.
I found this poem among three books of scientific poetry reviewed in Science Magazine, 2 October 2009. It’s from Darwin: A Life in Poems
Ancient Amazonian society revealed.
National Geographic really does specialize in that whole lost jungle city thing, doesn’t it? And it’s so nice when they actually deliver faint traces of long-gone civilizations… Read the rest “Ancient Amazonian society revealed.”
Planet Styrofoam.
You’ve probably, by now, heard about the latest crop of distant planets discovered by the Kepler telescope. But have you read, in New Scientist or elsewhere, just how strangely light… Read the rest “Planet Styrofoam.”
Runners: Put the shoes down.
Science Daily throws fitness fans off their stride with a study that suggests running shoes will mess up your legs:
… Read the rest “Runners: Put the shoes down.”In a study published in the December 2009 issue of PM&R: The journal
Put the prescriptions down.
A new story on the AP wire backs up one of my hobby-horse beliefs. People are using way too many antibiotics, and it’s killing us:
… Read the rest “Put the prescriptions down.”A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of
On the tip of my tongue….
DiscoveryNews says what I was just thinking. I mean, they’ve got a machine that can do that:
… Read the rest “On the tip of my tongue….”The first “words” detected from the subject’s brain were three vowel
Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.
These are notes and pen-over-chalk sketches of a 4-month-old fetus (and the structure of the placenta) as seen by Leonardo da Vinci. The first idea of the fetal position… Read the rest “Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.”
We don’t need more science education.
We need more science jobs. Over at ScienceBlogs, they crunch the numbers:
… Read the rest “We don’t need more science education.”Like many other things in life, you get what you pay for (if you’re lucky). As long as financial ‘engineering’
Batteries for solar homes.
Over at VentureBeat’s “GreenBeat” section, they’ve got a profile of a promising new Panasonic project, building batteries powerful enough to run your average… Read the rest “Batteries for solar homes.”
One tool, two brain functions.
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery (using old tools) of a single brain protein that does two very different things to help us think:
… Read the rest “One tool, two brain functions.”Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec. 24
Born in Black Holes
The World of Weird Things blog has a pretty cool look at the part played by big black holes in the origins of the universe:
… Read the rest “Born in Black Holes”So this nearly 3,000 kilometer wide brute would be one of the last things
Cosmic songs.
Science Line doesn’t care if you’re not supposed to be able to hear spaceship engines go “whooosh” – they say we’re actually being quietly bombarded… Read the rest “Cosmic songs.”
Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.
William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything that… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.”