This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreI can’t beat Nature‘s headline, so I won’t even try. “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans.” The creatures from the Late Cretaceous… Read the rest “Giant genitals were the downfall of some ancient crustaceans”
LiveScience introduces us to Saniwa ensidens, a now-extinct monitor lizard from Wyoming that had an eye on either side of its head and two more on the top of its skull:
… Read the rest “Extinct lizard had four eyes.”S. ensidens‘
This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift – they took two days to orbit Earth before getting… Read the rest “Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky”
PhysOrg returns to the sunstone – remember the sunstone? the calcite crystal that may have helped the Vikings plot courses at sea? that inspired this song a couple years back? –… Read the rest “A bit more evidence that Viking sunstones really worked.”
The Guardian looks at the journal Energy and Environmental Science to find out just how well the U.S. could handle switching over power supplies right now:
… Read the rest “Wind and solar (and batteries) could supply all of America’s power: Carnegie Science study”For instance, solar power generation
NPR recently ran a story on a new use for a fairly well-known drug, ivermectin. If you have a dog or cat (or horse or sheep), you might well have used ivermectin to treat fleas or worms. But apparently,… Read the rest “Take a pill, kill mosquitoes.”
![Growth of Egg of Hen, from De formatione ovi, et pulli / [Fabricius ab Aquapendente]](https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/GrowthofEggofHen.jpg)
From De formatione ovi, et pulli, by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, also known as Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio d’Acquapendente. He was an Italian surgeon who helped found… Read the rest “Science Art: Growth of Egg of Hen, c. 16th century.”
The Guardian has a game-changing invention for neurologists and anyone who needs a brain-scan done – a wearable helmet that lets you walk around – and turn your head –… Read the rest “Scanner helmet lets brain patients move around. (And look like warriors from Krull.)”
Nature reveals the ins and outs of dinosaur-era reproductive strategies, with research showing that prehistoric birds were too heavy to incubate their own eggs:
… Read the rest “Sitting on eggs is only for modern birds. Primeval birds did it differently.”Most birds today incubate
South China Morning Post reports on the massive mausoleum of a legendary figure from Chinese history – the general Cao Cao, a character in the Romance of Three Kingdoms, whose 1,800-year-old… Read the rest “They found Cao Cao’s grave.”
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into a point; a spinning black… Read the rest “Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)”
SONG: “Titanium” (penitential cover)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the February song. (I think… Read the rest “SONG: Titanium (penitential cover)”
Outside, that paragon of high-performance science, has some interesting findings from the University of Toronto, where researchers found that caffeine regularly boosts athletic performance… Read the rest “Caffeine actually slows some of us down – genetically.”
Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, including cameos by Merlin Sylvestris,… Read the rest “Science Art: Accipitres, Osprey, Goshawk, &c., 1889”
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