SONG: “So Heavy”
SONG: “So Heavy” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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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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Read more Earthquakes make instant gold.
OK, well, instant veins of gold, at least. The gold, Nature says, is in the ground already. But it takes an earthquake to make it mine-able in a flash:
… Read the rest “Earthquakes make instant gold.”Scientists have long known that veins
Cars shape sparrows’ evolution.
Nature demonstrates how (possibly) our machines are transforming birds’ whole existence:
… Read the rest “Cars shape sparrows’ evolution.”Roadside-nesting cliff swallows have evolved shorter, more manoeuvrable wings, which
Giant squid CLONE ARMY. Or, well, at least a tight family.
BBC reveals that giant squid, no matter where they’re found or how different from each other they look, are all genetically really close to one another:
… Read the rest “Giant squid CLONE ARMY. Or, well, at least a tight family.”An international team of researchers
Artificial stem cells make new blood.
One step closer to androids. That’s where scilogs is bringing us. Making a blood supply for bioengineered organs from scratch:
… Read the rest “Artificial stem cells make new blood.”Starting off with fibroblasts…, widespread
Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.
Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab:
… Read the rest “Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.”Because laser is an acronym for “light amplification
Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.
I couldn’t resist this when I saw the name of the book it came from: Italian Food, by Elizabeth David. It’s an improbable English cookbook from the 1950s:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.”…David
Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.
San Antonio Express-News finds the greatest way to spend a weekend, figuring out what went wrong in the worst explosion in history:
… Read the rest “Blowing up the Hindenburg again. For good.”Most historians and scientists have always subscribed
Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet
Nature calls them, poetically enough, the skeletons of “wandering ice giants”:
… Read the rest “Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet”Among the most puzzling finds of NASA’s Kepler space mission to find exoplanets, which launched
Australia faces their own house-eating snail invasion.
Smithsonian might terrify the Australian homeowner with their coverage of the the latest giant snail invasion:
… Read the rest “Australia faces their own house-eating snail invasion.”The giant African snail is a true nightmare. These snails grow to the size
So why is red tide killing our manatees?
NBC News is wondering what’s behind the massive blooms of marine microorganisms that are killing so many manatees:
… Read the rest “So why is red tide killing our manatees?”Florida wildlife officials report that 149 of the gentle giants
Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.
Great idea, if it works. Laboratory Equipment looks at the possibility of slicing up plastic trash to use as “ink” for 3D printers:
… Read the rest “Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.”Using free software downloaded from sites
Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl
This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is that the pressure at the bottom of a column… Read the rest “Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl”
Novel bacteria live in Lake Vostok. THEY LIVE!
PhysOrg announces the discovery of eerie, ancient lifeforms in an Antarctic lake:
… Read the rest “Novel bacteria live in Lake Vostok. THEY LIVE!”The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria which bore no resemblance
How they found the giant squid (TED talk)
Marine biologist Edith Widder reveals the secrets to a successful squid hunt: