A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.
Science Daily tries to describe a “platypus dinosaur” that combines the oddest bits of Brontosaurus and T. rex: Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is named after the country […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience 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 moreLionfish have reached Brazil.
Nature reports on a strikingly beautiful – and utterly destructive – invasive critter that’s swept across warm waters from Ft. Lauderdale to Venezuela: Lionfish have […]
Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.
These are two ancient horns, made of gold and engraved (or embossed) with runes and pictures that seem to tell a story. Or maybe just […]
SONG: “How the Moon Began”
SONG: “How the Moon Began.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Puzzle of Moon’s origin resolved”, Nature, 8 April 2015, as used in the post “Scientists: The […]
Dinosaur eggs in the big city.
Sometimes, as South China Morning Post demonstrates, you just can’t dig a hole in some parts of China without making some kind of remarkable dinosaur […]
The phrase “human-induced seismic hazards” means “man-made earthquakes.” Thanks to oil mining…
Nature has more on the research into the aformentioned artificial earthquakes: It’s the first thing that geologist Todd Halihan asks on a sunny spring afternoon […]
Vampire squid stranger, even, than previously thought.
Science Daily goes deeper into the singular (and kinda sexy) oddness of the vampire squid: At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don’t […]
Science Art: Las Cascadas Slide (Section 6) from AB Nichols Notebook Vol. 38, 1910
Click to embiggen This is a handmade map from the construction of the Panama Canal, one of history’s greatest feats of engineering. Culebra Cut is […]
Our cannibal roots.
Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human: Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given […]
Pictish fort found off Aberdeen
BBC is reporting that University of Aberdeen researchers have got all het up over the thought that there are traces of all kinds of pre-Celtic […]
New Alzheimer’s hope?
The Independent reports on Duke University researchers who think they’ve figured out how Alzheimer’s happens… and how to stop it: Researchers at Duke announced that […]
The thing that really sets human beings apart: our chins.
Thanks to Science Daily, I’ll never think of my beard the same way again. They’ve got new insight into the evolution of humankind’s most uniquely […]
Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995
Click to embiggen vastly In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day. Found on GRIN.
Obesity contra dementia. (How the extra pounds protect your brain.)
Popular Science plunges into a study in The Lancet examining the possible neurological benefit of being obese: The team of British researchers looked at records […]
Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)
Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings: …Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation […]