SONG: “Growing Batteries”
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Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read more Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.
Nature is sharing a fun little recipe for whipping up the super-material graphene in a kitchen blender:
… Read the rest “Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.”In Nature Materials, a team led by [Jonathan] Coleman [at Trinity College, Dublin,]
My, madam, what a spiky member you have… in me….
Nature has published an article about a cave insect that combines the words “marathon sex session” with “the female’s spiky penis”:
… Read the rest “My, madam, what a spiky member you have… in me….”In desolate caves
Howdy, neighbor!
Universe Today celebrates a Goldilocks discovery. The Kepler mission has found a planet just the right size and in just the right place to have life on it:
… Read the rest “Howdy, neighbor!”The newly-confirmed extrasolar
A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).
Science magazine turns on yet another way electromagnetism can alter the way we think and remember – by switching on vivid visual hallucinations:
… Read the rest “A vision machine (as in, it gives you visions).”A 22-year-old male was receiving
Children can inherit their parents’ trauma… through Dad’s sperm.
Nature reveals how parents who live through something horrible can have children who inherit depression and anxiety – biologically, through their RNA – from traumas they… Read the rest “Children can inherit their parents’ trauma… through Dad’s sperm.”
Tobacco will save us all.
Science Daily has the skinny on how we might wind up using fast-growing, high-density tobacco to save the planet from global warming – by creating bioethanol:
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Broken Bells – indie band, interplanetary heroes.
The Verge explains how a Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer have joined forces to make some pretty good music… and to save us all from an epic, planet-destroying cataclysm… Read the rest “Broken Bells – indie band, interplanetary heroes.”
Kids these days… so *sober*.
ABC (the Australian network) muses on the next generation… wondering why the kids are avoiding alcohol nowadays:
… Read the rest “Kids these days… so *sober*.”The findings of a survey of more than 2,500 young people published
Tree batteries. No, capacitors. No, *super* capacitors.
Laboratory Equipment on a low-tech material that solves a high-tech problem, as chemical engineers figure out ways to make supercapacitors out of wood:
… Read the rest “Tree batteries. No, capacitors. No, *super* capacitors.”OSU chemists have found that cellulose
Procrastination and impulsivity are linked… in your genes.
Science Daily tries to find the evolutionary roots of …oooh, shiny! I’ll finish this tomorrow:
… Read the rest “Procrastination and impulsivity are linked… in your genes.”From an evolutionary standpoint, impulsivity makes sense: Our ancestors
Enough garbage to hide a jumbo jet.
That, National Geographic has come out and said, is the sorry state of our oceans, as the ongoing search for Malaysian Airlines 370 has tragically demonstrated:
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Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel
This is a galaxy named M83, which is usually a faint smudge in the constellation Hydra. Up close, however, Hubble Space Telescope was able to see that it’s “ablaze… Read the rest “Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel”