Feeling the meaningless of it all? Do something selfless.
Not sure if this article from The Atlantic should go in the “no duh” file or if it’s really profound, but they’re certainly interested in […]
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 moreDid unleaded gasoline lower our crime rate?
BBC News asks a rather interesting question based on a curious correlation. Worldwide crime rates dropped, on average, at about the same time we stopped […]
SONG: “Growing Batteries”
SONG: “Growing Batteries.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy Storage Devices”, Laboratory Equipment, 8 […]
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: In Nature Materials, a team led by [Jonathan] […]
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”: In desolate caves throughout […]
Science Art: Diagram to show relations in ovum in ovo, 1899.
Click to embiggen From the sizzling pages of The American Naturalist on May 1, 1889, comes Francis H. Herrick’s fascinating study of an egg that […]
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 […]
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: A 22-year-old […]
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 […]
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 […]
Science Art: Ventral view of an adult small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray, by Josephine Ratikan.
Florida beekeepers, know your enemy.
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 […]
Kids these days… so *sober*.
ABC (the Australian network) muses on the next generation… wondering why the kids are avoiding alcohol nowadays: The findings of a survey of more than […]
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: OSU chemists […]
Procrastination and impulsivity are linked… in your genes.
Science Daily tries to find the evolutionary roots of …oooh, shiny! I’ll finish this tomorrow: From an evolutionary standpoint, impulsivity makes sense: Our ancestors should […]