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 Inchworm Robot Can Assemble Itself,” […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
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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: They do […]
A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.
PhysOrg goes *inside* the skull to figure out how – and how quickly – a dinosaur’s brain developed: Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol’s School of Earth […]
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: At the beginning of March of […]
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 […]
Something just blew up on the Moon.
A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years: “On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of […]
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 […]
Computing with light.
Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” by using photons to process information: […]
“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, […]
Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.
BBC opens the weird world of vegetable communication, revealing the fungal networks plants use to signal one another: But below ground, most land plants are […]
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: Researchers […]
The guitar thing WORKS, man.
Science says so. Pacific Standard reports on two studies that find guys with guitars really are more attractive: Across cultures, the research would suggest, male […]
SONG: Aeronaut, Come.
SONG: “Aeronaut, Come” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story […]
Science Art: “Star Wounds” of the Earth, 400 million years, 1998 stamp, Ukraine
Par avion? [Image via Wikimedia Commons]