Brief: Phoenix on Twitter
How much am I loving the Mars Phoenix tweets? Very much.
Science
Meditation, Mindfulness and “Untraining” the Brain.
ScienceBlogs has (have?) a piece on an interesting study about ways to make your thinking less hidebound and more creative: Yet relatively few studies focus […]
Spray-on skin.
PopSci‘s got skin in a can. I mean it. An aerosol. You spray it on burns. It’s skin in a can: Within the next five […]
Neanderthals About Town.
PhysOrg.com puts on the Ritz with a new discovery about the sophisticated Neanderthals of Great Britain: “The tools we’ve found at the site are technologically […]
Science Art: “Dirigible Balloon” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Scared eyes see more.
Eyes as round as quarters, mouth pulled into a hideous grimace, New Scientist pulls back the veil on a chilling new study that reveals the […]
Why it’s good to be baaaad.
New Scientist reveals why bad boys get more action – it’s because of the evolutionary pressure of the “dark triad” of personality traits, say mild-mannered […]
Honk if you get road rage!
Nature reports on a newly discovered link between road rage and bumper stickers. In other words, those pithy little messages say more than what’s printed: […]
The Dwarf Dinosaurs of Transylvania.
Discovery Channel reports on new proof supporting an eccentric, motorcycle-riding baron’s unusual fossil find – a previously unknown “island” of tiny dinosaurs in Dracula’s homeland: […]
Pity Poor Pluto
Not only is that icy world at the fringe of the solar system no longer a planet, but, as LiveScience reports, it’s no longer even […]
Science Art: “Trepanerat kranium” Nordisk Familjebok
A trepanned skull, from Nordisk Familjebok Encyclopedia, found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons. Trepanation is a bit of an archaeological mystery, apparently […]
Want an A? Sleep in!
PhysOrg.com reports on research from Emek Yezreel College in Israel that proves that teenagers should sleep late for success: …[D]uring the first week, the experimental […]
Sexy Spending.
LiveScience reveals the shocking truth that men do rash things when they see women in bikinis. Sexy stimuli don’t make men stupid, researchers at the […]
Fuligin is real.
Gene Wolfe wrote a few very good books about a far future world in which the main character wore a ceremonial cloak made of fuligin. […]
Lasers! Lasers!
Lasers! We can fire them into the clouds and they can summon the lightning! (says infoniac.com). And we can fire them at each other and […]