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 moreNature looks over some triangles – not unlike capital letter As – etched into a shell on Java and determines they were carved by Homo erectus, 500,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “Graffiti older than Neanderthals”By 40,000 years
Scientific American takes a moment, after all the hubbub last week, to think over what the success of the Orion launch means for NASA and the future of human spaceflight:
… Read the rest “Considering Orion.”“We haven’t had this
New Scientist turns our human expectations upside down once in the world of fiddler crabs. They seem musical (thus the name, after all), and they use that rhythm to win mates. But on closer… Read the rest “Dancing to the beat makes fiddler crab sexual… failures.”
This is how the the gooey inside becomes the crusty outside… oozing up from rifts.
The Economist is following Stanford researchers who are (literally) making some really cool stuff:
… Read the rest “New materials are really cool. Like, make-your-own-unplugged-AC cool.”Fully 15% of the electricity used by buildings in the United States is devoted to [air
Nature celebrates more wonders – potential ones, from flexible armor to affordable fuel cells – that we can make from graphene:
… Read the rest “Bullet-proof fabric and cheap hydrogen fuel… and it comes from carbon.”Protons’ ability to travel through graphene
Science News breaks some scary news to the fungus-phobic and those of us living in old buildings or moist climates. Researchers at CUNY have discovered exactly *how* household mold is bad… Read the rest “Worried? Forgetful? Is there mold in your walls?”
Business Insider, among other sources, has a neat piece on an even neater app that lets you talk to someone on the ISS:
… Read the rest “Talk to a friend in space. Or friends of a friend in space.”talian astronaut Samantha Cristoferetti is currently aboard the International
My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all kinds of fascinating things about the importance… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2: Lateral views of the skull and lower jaw… (etc.)”
If you’ve got a sister, why not turn her into a musical instrument?
Human Theremin from Lucy Sansom on Vimeo.
This is more about treated vocals than theremin… and it’s not exactly got a groove. But still, there’s something DUDE about it.
The Theremin Orchestra from merche blasco… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: The Theremin Orchestra, by Merche Blasco (with Sonia Megías and Thessia Machado)”
Dorit Chrysler seems to be on top of the theremin world today. Also, airplanes. And fingertips.
Jesper Just and Dorit Chrysler: This nameless spectacle from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: This Nameless Spectacle by Dorit Chrysler and Jesper Just”
Popular Mechanics gets all excited over PayPal/Tesla Motors/SpaceX magnate Elon Musk’s next set of high-tech tricks, including drones and rockets with unfolding wings (in a Star… Read the rest “Elon Musk designs X-Wing rockets & spaceport drones.”
SONG: “High Desert.”
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SOURCE: Based on “All Dressed Up For Mars And Nowhere To Go“, Medium, 9 November 2014, as used in the post “Red Planet… Read the rest “SONG: High Desert”
It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a lens – how an electron microscope make… Read the rest “Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946”
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