The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.
Science reveals the strange similarities, found by archaeologist Scott Fitzpatrick of the University of Oregon, between the very modern cryptocurrency markets and the very ancient […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney. Ah, tradition. Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a […]
SONG: Rats Get Into Everything.
SONG: “Rats Get Into Everything”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 11 July 2018, “Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive rats”, […]
The Milky Way’s big black hole gives Einstein a boost.
Nature reports on new observations of the vast, insatiable, matter-consuming maw at the heart of our galaxy that, on the bright side, has given helped […]
There’s liquid water on Mars
The ESA findings were published in Science – Italian astronomers have found evidence of a 12-mile-wide lake under the southern ice cap: ABSTRACT: The presence […]
Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.
This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re […]
Jupiter has 12 more moons – including one that’s *weird*.
Science Daily covers the Carnegie Institution for Science’s discovery of 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter, including a tiny, backward Jovian moon they’re calling an […]
How rats can kill a coral reef.
Nature has the answer, as supplied by a team of British and Australian researchers. Even though rats can’t live underwater, they can do fine on […]
SONG: One of Our Submarines (a penitential Thomas Dolby cover)
SONG: “One of Our Submarines” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the June […]
Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s. An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an […]
This jungle wasp has a stinger almost as long as the rest of its body.
Science Daily introduces us to a newly discovered Amazonian wasp that’s singularly well-endowed in the stinger department: “The stinger of the new parasitoid wasp called […]
Genetically modifying cannabis… for science and for profit.
Nature looks at a bold new frontier (and whole new money-making opportunities) opened by fiddling around with cannabis DNA: On 25 June, the FDA announced […]
Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using […]
SONG: Upside Down
SONG: “Upside Down”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 12 June 2018, “Africa’s majestic baobab trees are mysteriously dying”, as used in the post “The baobabs are […]
Studying the seat of parrot intelligence
Science Daily looks at a University of Alberta study that has found something interesting about how intelligence forms in our brains – by isolating a […]