The shape of thoughts.
Science Daily draws a clearer map than ever before showing how complicated networks of neurons – not individual neurons – make thoughts happen:
… Read the rest “The shape of thoughts.”They do not correspond to a
SONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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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.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreA new way of looking at dinosaur brains.
PhysOrg goes *inside* the skull to figure out how – and how quickly – a dinosaur’s brain developed:
… Read the rest “A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.”Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences,
They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.
Singularity Hub reports on the pioneering surgery that used 3D printing to replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull:
… Read the rest “They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.”At the beginning of March of this year, a radical surgery was performed
Science Art: Mei yi ge fei jie he bing ren…(Consumptive Disease), 1953.
A medical poster about pulmonary disease. I can’t read all the writing under it (other than “yi” ((one)) and “ren” ((person))), but after the cold I’ve… Read the rest “Science Art: Mei yi ge fei jie he bing ren…(Consumptive Disease), 1953.”
Something just blew up on the Moon.
A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years:
… Read the rest “Something just blew up on the Moon.”“On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,”
Coloring in the blues.
Berkeley researchers have mapped out connections between the music we hear and the colors we see. That is, blues music really is blue, and Mozart’s Flute Concerto #1 is bright orange… Read the rest “Coloring in the blues.”
Computing with light.
Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” … Read the rest “Computing with light.”
“Space Oddity” by Commander Chris Hadfield
If you’re going to say goodbye to the International Space Station….
Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.
“Genre de mollusques gastropodes, renfermant des animaux nus, de touts les mers.”
A popular genre of gastropods. Also the name of a boat (a dory, I reckon) and a mythological… Read the rest “Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.”
Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.
BBC opens the weird world of vegetable communication, revealing the fungal networks plants use to signal one another:
… Read the rest “Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.”But below ground, most land plants are connected by fungi called mycorrhizae.
Self-assembling robot worms.
Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts:
… Read the rest “Self-assembling robot worms.”Researchers at Harvard and MIT teamed up to produce a 3D-printed
The guitar thing WORKS, man.
Science says so. Pacific Standard reports on two studies that find guys with guitars really are more attractive:
… Read the rest “The guitar thing WORKS, man.”Across cultures, the research would suggest, male musicians are viewed
SONG: Aeronaut, Come.
SONG: “Aeronaut, Come” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.
Nature publishes a study on minocycline (remember that name, stupid men, it’s a kind of tetracycline), which not only kills germs but also keeps men from trusting attractive women… Read the rest “An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.”