SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
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 moreYou might have seen on BBC and elsewhere that India launched a rocket to Mars. But have you seen the Quartz article on just how inexpensively they managed to do it?:
… Read the rest “India’s super-efficient Mars mission.”Christened Mangalyaan,
I’ve seen this in a few different venues, but Laughing Squid brings the best of it together. A dad, frustrated at the thought of buying his son a prosthetic hand for tens of thousands… Read the rest “Limbs printed to order.”
An up-close look at chemoreceptors, chemical-sensing nerves, from the 1950s.
Not a flower, nor a machine, but somewhere between both. Found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Birds survived. The rest of the dinosaurs didn’t. And now, Science Daily says, some bees survived. But a heck of a lot of bees went extinct with the dinosaurs:
… Read the rest “Bees that died with the dinosaurs”Lead author Sandra Rehan,
Laboratory Equipment reveals that there’s a plus to experiencing trauma. Your kids will have a lower risk of PTSD:
… Read the rest “Trauma: the sunny side.”Last year, junior investigator Sharon Dekel and Prof. Zahava Solomon
PhysOrg explains that circuits using lasers are already around, but tend to be too bulky to fit into your average TV set or smartphone. That might not be true for much longer, though:
… Read the rest “Laser-powered “optochips” could make tiny tech.”Through
ScienceDaily keeps an eye out for creepy-crawlies with news that primate vision may have evolved *specifically* to identify snakes:
… Read the rest “Snake vision. We evolved for snake vision.”In a paper published Oct. 28 in the journal Proceedings
Gigaom takes the two great tastes of home manufacturing and carbon crystalline structures and makes them taste great together with a 3D printer that creates objects out of graphene:
… Read the rest “Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!”Mining
A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, but were lost until 1714. In … Read the rest “Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.”
PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers:
… Read the rest “Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!”[…A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new low-cost EEG recording front end was debuted at
SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Diamond drizzle forecast for Saturn… Read the rest “SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon””
ZDnet shines on the newest bright idea to promise to change the way we internet… a Chinese project using lightbulbs to transmit information wirelessly:
… Read the rest “Bright wireless.”Four computers under a one-watt
BBC opens our eyes to a hidden process in the night, when sleep washes away toxic proteins in your brain:
… Read the rest “Sleep and be cleaned, O brain.”Scientists, who imaged the brains of mice, showed that the glymphatic system became
A plate of geometrically arranged capensis moths, as recorded by Pieter Cramer, a fabric merchant and butterfly fan.
The whole book is charming. From the Biological Diversity Library … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate CCCII, Fig. A.B. Capensis, from Pieter Cramer’s De Uitlandische Kapellen, 1779”
That space rock that blew up over the Urals (and was captured on a few different cameras)… well, BBC reports that they’ve just hauled a 5-foot-long fragment out of Russia’s… Read the rest “Remember that exploding meteorite? They just found a half-ton chunk of it.”
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