SONG: High Desert
SONG: “High Desert.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “All Dressed Up For Mars And Nowhere To Go“, Medium, 9 November 2014, as used in the […]
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, …
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Science Art: Text-fig. 5. – Model of electron paths, 1946
Click to embiggen It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a […]
Here’s why sleep affects your memory (and how you can change it).
NPR goes, ahem, under the covers to trace the brain chemistry of sleep: “One of the most profound effects of a night of sleep is […]
Post-Script: The House just passed a bill barring scientists from advising the EPA on their own research.
This is from Salon, so not exactly science reportage here, but still: In what might be the most ridiculous aspect of the whole thing, the […]
“There are some real frustrations.” – Rocket scientist & Representative Rush Holt, on how science works in Congress.
Scientific American (via Nature) has more about Rush Holt’s eight-term Congressional career, and his new gig as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement […]
Adoptees’ “lost language” is still wired into their brains.
CBC has more on a study that finds kids adopted from China in infancy still have native speakers’ brain responses to spoken Chinese – even […]
Antimicrobial soap might be killing you.
Sorry, was that overdramatic? Science Daily is calmer in reporting that University of California researchers have found that Triclosan, the stuff that makes antibacterial soap […]
Science Art: #11268 (Small, Unidentified Insect On the Exoskeletal Surface Of A Dragonfly)
Click to embiggen This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals […]
A shadow falls across Comet 67P and the Philae lander….
Nature tries not to be *too* foreboding about the dark times ahead for Philae: The Philae lander’s drill is now working, but the craft’s batteries […]
Rosetta: What’s the big deal?
Instead of following the usual format today (find story, write lead, post an excerpt), I thought I’d do something a little different. The big story […]
Don’t turn around. He’s standing right behind you.
Nature takes a second look at the neurology of feeling a presence right next to you: Some people with relatively rare types of brain injury […]
Red Planet dreams: what it takes to sign up for a one-way mission….
Medium takes a long look at the Mars One company, which has assembled 200,000 volunteers for a Mars mission that doesn’t yet exist: Despite not […]
No, *this* is your brain on drugs. All interconnected….
IFL Science takes another look (courtesy of ISI Foundation researchers) at magic mushroom trips, and finds some surprises in what exactly psilocybin mushrooms do to […]
Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.
Click to embiggen vastly Quoting here from Oudemans’ book: In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the […]
Penicillin-resistant germ found – from more than a decade before penicillin was discovered.
New Scientist has more on WWI germ that can survive all kinds of modern medicines: Ernest Cable was a British soldier who died in 1915 […]