SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis 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”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreIt’s the first rigid-body airship since the Hindenburg, says the Register. And the military is banking on Pelican to change the way we fly:
… Read the rest “Newest new Zeppelin is taking test flights. And *landings*.”The 230ft-long, 18-ton demonstrator has
I looove DIY projects, and this one’s a doozy. Techli’s got the inside scoop on a Chicago science-artist’s system for not only creating remote-controlled cockroaches,… Read the rest “Create your own robo-roach at home!”
I can’t read the German here, but it sure looks like an illustration of a jackal and another illustration of snakes and scorpions. I’m guessing this was a tour of Egypt…… Read the rest “Science Art: From Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher, by Siculus Diodorus, 1554.”
Laboratory Equipment reveals a quantum leap in tDCS – transcranial direct current stimulation, or zapping your brain to make it do things differently. As the regular reader knows… Read the rest “They just invented the wire. (Electrodes that release opiates in the brain.)”
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have mapped out the perceptual problem with racism, in a Psychological Science study looking at the way “essentialism” limits our ability… Read the rest “Racism linked to a lack of creativity. (A surprise from the pigeonhole department.)”
SONG: “Mesopotamia” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making up for… Read the rest “SONG: “Mesopotamia” (a penitential B52s cover)”
Nature celebrates the discovery of ancient life… not from the much-ballyhooed Lake Vostok project, but a smaller lake. Still frozen for a long, long time. And definitely home to … Read the rest “There is life under Antarctica’s ice.”
Well, maybe not *directly*… but Science Daily explains how scientists are watching Arabidopsis thaliana, a fast-growing, globally found weed known as mouse-eared cress, to learn… Read the rest “The weed that can feed the world.”
An artisan, working with technology.
A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
That’s it. Canada’s space hero did this on the International Space Station.
You can hear the slight buzz of the station’s fans in the background.
I DON’T MIND … Read the rest “Astronaut Chris Hadfield just wrote and recorded a song in space.”
SONG: “Starts Beating” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “Scientists build a biological pacemaker… Read the rest “SONG: “Starts Beating””
We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see.
This image, of aortal… Read the rest “Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.”
Wired beholds an eerie arthropod self-portrait… a piece of functional art, a spider, by spider:
… Read the rest “Spider spins a spider decoy in its web…”In September, [biologist Phil] Torres was leading visitors into a floodplain surrounding
MIT Technology Review crunches the numbers and figures that anyone who spends three years on Mars is going to witness an H-bomb-sized asteroid collision:
… Read the rest “Space statistics: Martian astronauts would see a 1-megaton collision”Today. William Bruckman and pals
io9.com, appropriately enough, has the details on a treatment that seems straight out of science fiction – a virus that infects heart cells and turns them into a biological pacemaker… Read the rest “Virus rebuilds unhealthy hearts”
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