Don’t worry about global warming flooding! Worry about suffocation.
Science Daily has more on the threat climate change poses to our oxygen supply: A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics from […]
Science Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreSearching the brain for reasons for suicide – using ketamine.
Nature looks at a new ketamine study of the brains of people who attempted suicide: Fewer than 10% of people with depression attempt suicide, and […]
Science Art: Ecphora gardnerae, by J.C. McConnell
Click to embiggen A shellfish that was around when megalodons swam and the first crows flew. It was drawn by J.C. McConnell, a doctor who […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Carolina talks Theremin – An overview for composers and music lovers
In which the virtuoso discusses the techniques, range and aesthetics of the instrument. And, you know, plays a little.
Thanksgiving Theremin: Theremin and Synths (Improvisation) by Carolina Eyck and Marius Leicht
Straight into the hearts of space with this one. Hope your Thanksgiving weekend (if you’re celebrating) is, like, totally cosmic.
Shark-tracking drones over Australian beaches.
Australia’s ABC News has us watching the skies to see shark-tracking flying robots (and drum lines to catch-and-release sharks): Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair has […]
A bionic rose, for electronic lovers – growing circuitry inside.
Nature reports on the creation of a rose implanted with electronic circuits: Researchers at Linköping University have created bionic roses by incorporating plant-compatible electronic materials […]
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump.”
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Fish and Adaptation: Mangrove Fish Jumps into Air in Warming Water”, Nature World News, 21 Oct […]
Science Art: New invented Machine, for deepning and cleansing Docks, &c., 1775.
Click to embiggen In 1775, Pennsylvania Magazine wanted its readers to be up to date on the very latest in technological advances, including this machine […]
Parasitic worm boosts human fertility.
The BBC has me wondering just how many worm-babies there are out there (like blackout babies or blizzard babies). Because being infected with this parasitic […]
14 sided dice. They found an ancient board game that uses those.
Live Science has some interesting photos and coverage of a new discovery of a very old board game: Pieces from a mysterious board game that […]
If you’re looking at a plant in a museum, there’s a better than 50% chance it’s named wrong.
Motherboard checks out the state of our nomenclature, and the findings are not good: n a study published on Monday in the journal Current Biology, […]
SONG: All Praise Black Ice
SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015, as […]
Science Art: Taf. V: Feuer-Salamander by Bruno Dürigen.
Fire salamanders. They don’t look so hot. [via]
Give yourself worms. Your immune system will thank you.
Scientific American finds that we really do need to get some worms to stay healthy: At one point in the not too distant past we […]