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 moreFusion goes beyond the three kinds of lies (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to… someone) and into the awful implications of trusting the data as it lies,… Read the rest “The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.”
Slate (not The Onion) dishes on the Victoria’s Secret designer looking at the next generation of form-fitting spacesuits:
… Read the rest “Spacesuits made… sexy?”Perhaps nobody understands the intersection of aesthetics,
Western Digs reveals the latest discovery from the metropolis of middle America – where they practiced human sacrifice with their own citizens:
… Read the rest “Cahokian human sacrifices picked local victims.”But one of the many mysteries lingering
This is one of a whole deck of… well, they’re practically a technological tarot, really. They’re playing cards illustrating concepts in engineering. (The two of diamonds… Read the rest “Science Art: Five of Spades, from Playing Cards: Engineering”
Aeon asks some interesting questions about what’s really making us fatter – and why:
… Read the rest “If our diets alone are making us obese, why are vervet monkeys and mice overweight too?”As Richard L Atkinson, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the
Science Alert (citing Environmental Science & Technology) shows us a new way to think about chucking out all that delicious “non-biodegradable” garbage:
… Read the rest “Mealworms can eat our plastic trash.”Researchers
TheLocal.it looks at the petrified remains of Ancient Roman volcano victims:
… Read the rest ““They ate better than we did.” Scans reveal Pompeii victims’ health.”A recently launched project that is performing CAT scans on the remains of Pompeii victims contained within
According to Quartz, in the African country of Tanzania at least, it’s WhatsApp:
… Read the rest “What social media app has the biggest political influence right now? Not Facebook. Not Twitter.”Things are a bit different in Africa, where the mobile phone has changed not only the way people communicate
First Post shows how NASA’s not the only one with big space news today. India has just launched their own space observatory from Sriharikota spaceport:
… Read the rest “How do you say “Hubble” in Hindi? “Astrosat” – sort of.”PSLV-C30 is carrying Astrosat,
The one carries oxygen around, the other keeps the system clean. They’re teeny tiny.
Image from the Electron Microscopy Facility at The National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-Frederick).… Read the rest “Science Art: Red White Blood Cells, by NCI-Frederick.”
Science Daily looks closely at an affordable, efficient, non-toxic battery that runs your home smoothly from intermittent power sources:
… Read the rest “We’ve got a battery for your home. Made from organic dye and food additives.”The mismatch between the availability of intermittent
New Scientist reveals how the first Americans made their way into Alaska and down… by eating salmon along the way:
… Read the rest “Salmon snacks sent Stone Age settlers south.”The bones were discovered in a hearth inside a house at the Upward
SONG: “One (Is The Loneliest Number)”.
ARTIST: grant, featuring Sebastian Balfour. (Originally by Harry Nilsson.)
SOURCE: It doesn’t have a research source. It’s… Read the rest “SONG: One (is the Loneliest Number) (penitential cover)”
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.
I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such wide, flat spaces (wider and flatter even than… Read the rest “Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.”
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