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.)
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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 moreLive Science has some interesting photos and coverage of a new discovery of a very old board game:
… Read the rest “14 sided dice. They found an ancient board game that uses those.”Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn’t been played for 1,500 years were discovered
Motherboard checks out the state of our nomenclature, and the findings are not good:
… Read the rest “If you’re looking at a plant in a museum, there’s a better than 50% chance it’s named wrong.”n a study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, researchers from Oxford University and
SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”.
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SOURCE: Based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015, as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: All Praise Black Ice”
Scientific American finds that we really do need to get some worms to stay healthy:
… Read the rest “Give yourself worms. Your immune system will thank you.”At one point in the not too distant past we had three lines of defense against disease: the immune system,
The aptly named Huh magazine sums up a Danish study that found people who leave Facebook feel measurably better about life:
… Read the rest “Quit Facebook. You’ll be happier. (Science says so.)”They took a group of 1,095 Facebook users and split them into two
Nature reports that the New Horizons probe has snapped photos of cratered mountains that bear the hallmarks of volcanoes that erupt with ice, rather than lava:
… Read the rest “Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!”The images show two mountains
Nature World News reports on a little mangrove-estuary dwelling fish that adapts to warmer waters by jumping into the air to cool down:
… Read the rest “Global warming might make the fish jump.”In humid heat in tropical mangroves, tiny rivulus
Welcome to Wellcome.
They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more marvelous experimental… Read the rest “Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York”
New Scientist looks at the AI that’s been assigned the unenviable task of reading every scientific paper online and finding the important ones:
… Read the rest “It’s a little reading robot for the whole wide internet.”Semantic Scholar, which launches
Ars Technica has an inspirational story of some folks who decided they could do a better job than their “professional” ISP:
… Read the rest “DIY Internet: How Orca Island, WA, became their own provider.”Around that time, CenturyLink service went out
Scientific American celebrates a bumper crop of super-healthy tomatoes, thanks to genetic modification:
… Read the rest “Super-healthy tomatoes showcase genetic meddling’s sunny side.”A single tomato of the new variety contains the same amount of resveratrol as
Nature reveals that low-fat diets don’t really help you lose weight:
… Read the rest “Everything you know about low-fat dieting is wrong.”An analysis of 53 weight-loss studies that included more than 68,000 people has concluded that, despite their
Three idols, from the Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, published between 1892 and 1910.
I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which is usually full of … Read the rest “Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.”
Scientific American reveals that the stuff you really weren’t expecting – the “unusual, the jarring, the culturally shocking” – can improve your cognitive… Read the rest “Weird stuff: Better for your brain and your waistline.”
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