Blue whale basso is really profundo.
Discovery gets deep in its musing about a cetacean mystery. The songs of the blue whale have been getting progressively lower in pitch: In some […]
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DIY book scanner
Wired featured a wonderful piece of homemade cybernetics (and one that could subtly changing the world) – the homemade book scanner: For nearly two years, […]
Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!
Chasing the links for that Levitin interview yesterday, I found this call for volunteers in a musical experiment: MacCullum’s computer program creates a randomly generated […]
The Brain in the Studio
Unlike all of the other selections cut-n-pasted here, this one I typed in by hand; that’s how much I wanted to share it. It’s from […]
Science Art: Chinchilla, Webster’s New International Dictionary, 1911
Behold a crepuscular rodent. In this case, I suppose, a fractional crepuscular rodent. (That means they like going out at dusk and dawn… creatures of […]
Reading is fundamental… for kids’ brains.
Science Daily reveals research that proves reading lessons really do create new brain cells in children: Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just […]
10 red balloons.
That’s what DARPA launched to test new ways to use the internet – and social media specifically, the Guardian says – to solve problems rapidly […]
Monkey talk.
And, Wired says, we’re just about able to understand their vocabulary… and their grammar: Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific […]
Getting stuck a stroke of luck
PhysOrg looks at the sunny side of the Mars Rover Spirit getting stuck – in exactly the right place to make some major discoveries: “Spirit […]
Birdfeeder evolution.
Wired reveals one strange way humans are changing the natural world – by accidentally creating new species: “This is reproductive isolation, the first step of […]
Science Art: (MAPS fundraiser) “Candy Dish” Psychedelic Synthesis Lab Art Glassware
This is custom glass art from the laboratory of Sasha Shulgin, the chemist who gave us MDMA and a host of other psychoactive compounds. It’s […]
Our Antarctic Getaway
New Scientist has a lovely brochure for a summer place down south – far, far south: The cool climate of Antarctica was a refuge for […]
Feeling with a robot hand.
The Mail Times reports on a bionic breakthrough – a man who can feel and control his prosthetic hand as if it was the one […]
All they need is glove.
Glove is all they need. NASA, that is, according to New Scientist. They’ve got somewhere to go, but aren’t all dressed up yet – not […]
Coke Silver could save the world.
Or, at least, do less harm. The folks at Gizmodo are touting the concept of the future-friendly paint-free Coke can: So using only classic Coca-Cola’s […]