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”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreThis is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreThese are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreRed pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreThis is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read more“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Science News brings a new(-ish) perspective on the atrophied forelimbs of Tyrannosaurus rex. Those little arms were perfectly built for close-quarters slashing of prey: [T]he […]
Nature‘s report seems backwards, but there it is. Researchers have found a key to reversing old age is to kill off certain decrepit cells that […]
Click to embiggen There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show […]
Stat News has some weird news at the intersection of business and pharmacology – a new company wants to sell a beta-blocker used for blood […]
SONG: “Heaven is Our Home”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months,” The Guardian, 13 Oct 2017, as used in […]
Pottery charts are cool. This expedition report is full of ’em.
Popular Science gets the skinny on a super-thin satellite that cleans up the metal messes we leave in orbit: This past spring, the NIAC awarded […]
Nature explains an artificial-intelligence breakthrough, with a computer that’s learned how to win at the complicated Asian game of go without studying the strategies and […]
But, The Guardian says, we don’t have to worry about death by 8.5 tons of space junk – probably: China’s space agency has since notified […]
Popular Science wants to help you break the smartphone habit: “When we let ourselves space out and let our minds wander,” [Manoush] Zomordoi writes, “we […]
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