Perfect pitch isn’t.
Science Daily sticks it to the people with an innate ear for what’s a C and what isn’t. Apparently, “perfect pitch” can be fooled:
… Read the rest “Perfect pitch isn’t.”Absolute pitch has been “idealized
SONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience 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.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Hover Whales (from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of collecting and preserving specimens of whales and porpoises. By Frederick W. True.)
Image originally from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of collecting and… Read the rest “Science Art: Hover Whales (from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of collecting and preserving specimens of whales and porpoises. By Frederick W. True.)”
SONG: “Beautiful People” (a penitential Books cover)
SONG: “Beautiful People” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making … Read the rest “SONG: “Beautiful People” (a penitential Books cover)”
Breast-feeding grows brains.
Futurity hops on the lactation train with a study that proves breastfed babies grow their brains earlier and better:
… Read the rest “Breast-feeding grows brains.”[T]his is the first imaging study that looked for differences associated
SciAm’s 30 under 30 – and a pack of Nobel laureates they can mingle with.
Scientific American looks forward to an experimental party. We’re going to watch what happens when you put 30 young chemists in a room with some of the world’s brightest scientists… Read the rest “SciAm’s 30 under 30 – and a pack of Nobel laureates they can mingle with.”
Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.
Doesn’t matter who you are or what you want, University Herald explains. The negotiator who asks for the specific number gets the upper hand:
… Read the rest “Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.”Research conducted by [Columbia Business
Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.
New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot:
… Read the rest “Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.”Most robots are taught to avoid
The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?
BBC puts on a big show about how smart folks’ brains filter out big background motions – a capacity that proves that intelligence is really… oh, look! What’s that… Read the rest “The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?”
Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket)
This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week.
It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma to go to faraway places without having to haul… Read the rest “Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket) ”
Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.
Or, Sci-News.com seems to be saying, a protein from breast milk at least undoes a certain level of antibiotic resistance in some pretty nasty germs:
… Read the rest “Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.”In petri dish and animal experiments,
Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.
The Telegraph reports on (or, at least, repeats Wired‘s reporting on) the dirigibles spreading the World Wide Web to places no internet has gone before:
… Read the rest “Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.”“To help enable the campaign,
Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.
By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables:
… Read the rest “Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.”What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is
Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.
PhysOrg gives new meaning to “magic marker” with these pens that draw flexible circuits in whatever shape you like:
… Read the rest “Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.”London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. makes electrically
Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,
This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot.
From the NASA Image of the Day Gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,”This image
SONG: Back to the Printer
SONG:“Back to the Printer” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “MIT and Harvard’s 3D-Printed … Read the rest “SONG: Back to the Printer”