This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreThis is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreThis image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreAn illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreThis is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreThose questions were raised in, of all publications, Astrobiology Magazine. Why are astrobiologists so concerned about human culture? Because if civilizations can really die out, […]
National Geographic looks into the caves and reports on the earliest artists’ small, beautiful hands: Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University analyzed hand stencils […]
Sweden’s The Local rewrites history with a pre-Viking farm that they’re calling “shocking”: “It is completely unique,” Jan Heinerud at Västerbotten’s Museum in Umeå told […]
BBC discusses the challenges faced by Rodrigo Souza, a man who’s dedicated himself to saving an endangered species – the lethal, heat-seeking venomous snake called […]
No, not quoting that classical sot Li Bai, but the (mostly) sober-minded folks at Outside, who are now celebrating Dogfish Head’s latest special beer… made […]
Why is this brain area important? I have no words. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Yep. Virgin Galactic has announced that it’s sending a reality TV show contestant into space while cameras roll: “Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition […]
Space.com reveals the weirdness of water – neither ice, nor liquid, nor vapor – found on a faraway planet: Astronomers have determined that the atmosphere […]
Nature has the details on the bionic limb wired to an amputee’s nerves: A 32-year-old man whose knee and lower leg were amputated in 2009 […]
Says it all right there. You want to see inside the world’s largest particle accelerator? Street View will take you into the underground tunnels: We’re […]
ABC (the American network) asks why send a toolbox into orbit when you can send one tool that makes all the other ones?: In NASA […]
A plate from the American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19, “French Figure Sculpture on Some Early Spanish Churches.” Photographed from below a deep basement. That’s […]
Space.com has more on the Wet Red Planet: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found that surface soil on the Red Planet contains about 2 percent […]
ABC (the Australian one) reveals a whale of a prehistoric puzzle piece – or at least a missing link that paleontologists have finally reeled in: […]
Washington Post rousingly reports on a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and, um, aromatic approach to deep-seated anxiety – with a psychological trick to beat fear with smells […]
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