Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian
Click to embiggen At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThanksgiving Theremin: Handel’s “As When the Dove,” by Peter Pringle
Pringle’s dedication is absolutely admirable. From his description: There is a lot of very fast fingering and some extended baroque trills in this piece which […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Ennio Morricone’s “The Ecstasy of Gold,” by Carolina Eyck.
We’ve had Eyck on here before, but not like this:
No song today.
Or at least, no original. I’ve got a bass line and a smattering of lyrics, but still haven’t replaced the laptop, so recording has been […]
China’s ready to make first contact with aliens.
The Atlantic has a great piece on the E.T.-hunting radio telescope that China just built (it’s twice the size of Arecibo) with a little input […]
“Brain training” video game beats dementia in trials.
Indiana University psychology researchers have definitely proved, after 10 years of study, that a particular kind of video game, as part of a brief brain-training […]
Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran
Click to embiggen This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery. The NASA folks say: This […]
Spanking makes their behavior worse
Science Daily has more on the Texas and Virginia researchers who looked over 12,112 kids’ experiences growing up and concluded spanking – free of all […]
We just sent a message to a habitable planet.
New Scientist explains that the recipients, if there are any, could answer in about 25 years – enough time for a radio message to travel […]
FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)
New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, […]
Science Art: Representations of the Braid Groups by Nancy Scherich, overall winner, Dance Your Ph.D. 2017.
“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.” So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is […]
Alzheimer’s protein can travel from the blood up to the brain.
Science News shares new research about how Alzheimer’s can happen – and, maybe, how we can prevent it. Those amyloid proteins that build up in […]
Florida Man kills Clovis-First Hypothesis – with a few buddies on boats.
Ars Technica sums up research that kills the idea that the first Americans walked over Arctic ice from Russia. Instead, it really looks like humans […]
Science Art: Ordo Fecundus (Steinfurz und Flidermaus), 1553
Click to embiggen slightly An owl and a bat, in German and Latin, as presented by Conrad Gessner in Icones Animalium Quadruped Viviparorum et Oviparorum. […]
Half-blimp, half-plane flying machine built with safety in mind.
Popular Science introduces us to “The Plimp,” a vehicle that hopes to be a nearly unsinkable aircraft: With a rigid, winged body held underneath a […]