The Colbert Report recently made science news over the space station naming controversy. Well, unbowed and unbloodied, the “right-wing” “pundit” once again… Read the rest “For those on the right, sorry, he really is joking.”
You’d expect that meditation would improve your ability to remember things, I suppose. But this study mentioned in New Scientist shows that it really depends on how recently you … Read the rest “Memory and meditation.”
Proteles cristata, the earth-wolf of southern Africaraman amplifier. He’s got a guilty look about him, doesn’t he? He knows what the other hyenas have been hiding. They’re… Read the rest “Science Art: Aard-wolf, Webster’s New International”
The FASEB Journal makes me uneasy with a new biochemical study. I’m beginning to worry that any minute now, government agents will be arresting my head:
… Read the rest “Home-grown and then some.”Scientists made their discovery
Forget Hebrew, Latin and Old Norse – the Page F30 blog reports on folks out there working to bring back a really old language:
… Read the rest “Ammā Dnghu: A taste for PIE.”That’s the concept behind the reconstruction of
The Telegraph, among other news sources, revels in my obsolescence. I am biologically and genetically surplus to needs. I am a man, and they’ve found the first species that’s… Read the rest “Men need not apply.”
Happy 4/20, all you stoners.
This is where rope comes from. And paper, and oil, and birdseed, and cheese, and fabric, and…. duuuuude.
Image found in a very special category on Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science art: Cannabis sativa, Nordisk familjebok”
Scientific American raises the alarming prospect that, much quicker than anyone expected, bluefin tuna is going the way of the dodo:
… Read the rest “Sushi ain’t green.”As European fishing fleets prepare to begin the two-month
LiveScience sullies our image of chimpanzees as noble, natural creatures with evidence that these apes practice prostitution:
… Read the rest “Chimp tricks.”The primates’ food-for-sex barter occurs indirectly,
You might think flying is an impressive enough goal for any creature, but the Telegraph reveals new clues that dinosaurs may have evolved wings to attract mates:
… Read the rest “Beauty before flight?”Dr Robert Nudds, a biologist
ScienceNOW is watching perceptual experts sketch out the first map of a strange sensory hinterland – the perceptual space that lies between what you see what you feel:
… Read the rest “Touch the vision.”Experiments
A partially polished ammonite fossil.
At one point in history, these guys ruled the world. A few million years ago, there were bajillions of varieties of nearly … Read the rest “Science Art: Ammonit-internal-xx_hg, by Hannes Grobe.”
New Scientist reports on an unusual perceptual quirk schizophrenia grants its victims – the ability to see through the tricky “hollow mask” optical illusion:
… Read the rest “Of schizophrenic sight and hollow faces.”Telling
BBC News reports on a new kind of observational satellite overhead. It’s not looking down at us – it’s feeling our weight:
… Read the rest “The satellite feels.”As Goce “bumps” through Earth’s
Washington University in St. Louis has been looking at depressed people’s brains – specifically the “default mode network,” a series of connections that link… Read the rest “Depressed brains are… depressed.”
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