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 moreScience Daily reveals a neurological truth, found during a first-of-its-kind study of teens’ brains while engaging in social media – that getting Likes on Facebook or Instagram… Read the rest “Likes like chocolate. Likes like the jackpot. It’s true.”
PopSci reports on the upper-arm implant that oozes buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cuts the craving for opioid addicts:
… Read the rest “FDA approves anti-addiction implant”Called Probuphine, the implant
One of the more interesting trends in scientific illustration lately – and I do think that it’s exactly the same kind of thing that inspired amateur illustrators… Read the rest “Science Art: Minecraft Colosseum replica (Amphitheatrum Flavium)”
Nature looks at some strange things Neanderthals built for… reasons… inside their cave homes:
… Read the rest “Puzzling out Neanderthal architecture.”Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions — 176,000-year-old
Washington Post has us – well, not exactly preparing for the end of the world, but definitely on our guard. When polar bears start mating with grizzlies, it’s definitely a sign… Read the rest “Polar bears and grizzlies are making global-warming babies.”
SONG: “Everything Appears to be in Order”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “AI Pioneer ROSS Intelligence Lands Its First Big Law Clients,” The American Lawyer, 6 May… Read the rest “SONG: Everything Appears to be in Order”
Our first ticket off this rock.
Saturn F-1 Engine is tested at the Marshall Center in 1964.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow:
… Read the rest “You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.”Across the United States, a child swallows a battery once every
Nature goes EXXXTREEEEME!!! in the search for evidence of water on Mars. And boy did they find evidence. Seems like a couple billion years ago, meteorite impacts unleashed cosmic-sized… Read the rest “Water on Mars? TSUNAMIS ON MARS!”
Nature reports on the first safety study, published in The Lancet, of psilocybin mushrooms as a potent therapy for drug-resistant long-term depression:
… Read the rest “Magic mushrooms against chronic depression.”Researchers from Imperial College
Two rays and a shark… and an egg case… from Buffon’s Natural History of the globe, and of man; beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, a book with a long title compiled… Read the rest “Science Art: Buffon’s Natural History, Taf. 7,”
The American Lawyer reports on Ross, the newest legal mind to join Baker & Hostetler – despite being an artificial intelligence programmed to analyze bankruptcy law and talk… Read the rest “First firm to hire a virtual attorney. It’ll be handling bankruptcies….”
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction:
… Read the rest “…or maybe not.”From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor of Mesoamerican
All kinds of news outlets have picked up this Le Journal de Montreal story on William Gadoury, a teenager who noticed that Mayan constellations lined up with their ancient cities…… Read the rest “So, a 15-year-old just discovered a Mayan city… without leaving home.”
Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will show you.
I found it in the David Rumsey Historical… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.”
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