SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreThis 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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Read moreUniverse Today is showing off NASA snapshops of China’s Chang’e3 lunar lander and Yutu lunar rover:
… Read the rest “Hey, You Two on the Moon – You and Yutu!”According to School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Mark Robinson’s
…and they way they move, ScienceDaily says follows the same mathematical pattern:
… Read the rest “So a shark, a hunter-gatherer and a honeybee walk into a bar…”A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior of animals
SEN reveals the poetic way we’re planning to keep tomorrow’s satellites from turning into space junk:
… Read the rest “Sailing satellites out of orbit”In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to generate the
Rodents, as appearing in a book of medicinal herbs (619 of them?) by Etienne-Francois Geoffroy and Francois Alexandre de Garsault.
Or so BioDiv Library would have us believe. Leafing through… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 721: Mus minor, Souris; Mus major, Rat from … well, ostensibly Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes…,”
BBC has more on one unfortunate modern human inheritance from our ancestors interbreeding with Neanderthals:
… Read the rest “Latin American diabetes risk traced to Neanderthal ancestors.”The gene variant was detected in a large genome-wide association study (GWAS)
Nature celebrates (sort of) a discovery that makes it just a smidge more likely that there’s life somewhere else out there – a little blip that probably means there’s… Read the rest “Exomoon spotted. Maybe. (And, well, it probably won’t happen again.)”
SONG: “Like A Rooster At Dawn” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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PhysOrg takes a deeper look at the reasons why prehistoric doctors poked holes in their patients’ heads:
… Read the rest “Drill two holes in your head and see me in the morning.”However, evidence shows that healers in Peru practiced trepanation—a surgical
Reuters reports on an innovative response to a space helmet malfunction:
… Read the rest “Astronauts to use space snorkels.”U.S. spacewalks have been suspended since July after a spacesuit helmet worn by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano
Nature has more on the math whizzes of the South Pacific:
… Read the rest “Polynesian polynomials? Islanders counted in binary.”Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the
Nature has reached the point where they’re worrying about how clean we can keep our ships and rovers, so they don’t track our chemicals all over the Red Planet’s pristine… Read the rest “Water on Mars. Not traces, but actual wet stuff.”
In 1660, Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius created an atlas of the stars.
This map shows how people thought the moon moved in 1660 – in epicycles. Before… Read the rest “Science Art: Theoria Lunae from Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.”
New Scientist imagines a fabulous new look for Edmontosaurus (the platypus of the dinosaur era) based on a new fossil finding – the duck-billed dinosaurs had combs like roosters… Read the rest “Duck-billed dinosaur redrawn – because they had “rooster-like” combs.”
Nature uncovers the secret lives of creatures that never grow old:
… Read the rest “Everybody ages… well, except when they don’t. Meet the Peter Pans.”A comparison of standardized demographic patterns across 46 species, published today in Nature, suggests that the vast
Reuters reports on Curiosity’s latest discovery – the dried bed of what was apparently once a mucky, life-filled lake on Mars:
… Read the rest “Martian Lake: Life was (probably) here.”The lake, located inside Gale Crater where the
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