SONG: One (is the Loneliest Number) (penitential cover)
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 a penitential […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
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
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
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Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo. I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such […]
This yeast makes cannabinoids, no pot plants needed.
The New York Times wouldn’t call it “soylent green buffalo,” but I would. Picture, if you would, vats of yeast engineered to give off THC, […]
Love and Fitness
PLOS Biology wants us to know that in a cost/benefit analysis, love comes out ahead: A new study published in PLOS Biology by Malika Ihle, […]
American bees get a (small) break.
It’s tough being a bee for lots of reasons, but at least, as New Scientist reports, brain damage from chemical warfare won’t be as much […]
3D barcodes ensure pills (or microchips) are genuine.
Popular Science reveals a new way to check if a little thing really is what it’s labeled as: Researchers from the University of Bradford and […]
Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.
Click to embiggen This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a […]
A laser levitating glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum.
Science Daily might not be as into the poetry of that phrase as I am. They’re more into what it means make a diamond that […]
Polar bears might make it after all.
Science Daily hails a new study that finds even in an iceless, seal-less Arctic, the polar bear might be able to survive: As climate change […]
New Stonehenge discovery = “Archaeology on steroids.”
The Guardian bulks up over scientific enthusiasm for a long-buried stone structure: Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a massive stone monument buried under a […]
Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.
Click to embiggen From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort […]
Wormhole blueprints
Not a hole that worms live in, but the kind that spaceships use to bounce around the galaxy. Science Daily explains how Spanish scientists have […]
The good news: There are lots more trees than we thought. The bad news: Well….
Washington Post spells out the bad news. There are more trees than we thought, but that means there are a *whole lot* less than there […]
Gene therapy rescues brain cells from Alzheimer’s
The Guardian reports on a new therapy – nerve growth factor – that effectively saves dying brain cells: The new results are preliminary findings from […]
Flesh Velcro fixes hearts.
Irish Examiner looks into the “biological Velcro” that could soon help repair damaged hearts: Velcro uses two sheets of material, one covered by hooks and […]