SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
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.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreBrace yourselves for more global warming news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is ready to post its next report. Most of us, like Scientific American, won’t really… Read the rest “Leaked report: Global warming is actually happening.”
Here’s the key component of a crystal oscillator – which is to say, the slightly fancier version of a pendulum that keeps time inside an electronic timepiece.… Read the rest “Science Art: Quarzkristall, by Jens Both Elcap”
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another question now.… Read the rest “Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.”
SciTech Daily salutes the latest Cassini discovery – first surface liquid spotted on an alien world:
… Read the rest “Rivers on Titan”The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to be a miniature
Discovery doesn’t have much to say about it other than, in essence, YES! FINALLY! WE FILMED A GIANT SQUID!
… Read the rest “Giant squid filmed at home.”Mankind finally confronts the greatest mystery of the deep as the first-ever
Telegraph does not take the ballooning helium shortage lightly, and neither does Cambridge chemist Dr. Peter Wothers:
… Read the rest “Chemist: STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS BALLOONS!”Helium is a non-renewable gas that is used to cool magnets in MRI scanners
A map from the Massachusetts Environment Department City Archaeology Program, found on archive.org.
New York Times reviews the research demonstrating that MDMA, better known as X, can work wonders with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder patients:
… Read the rest “More on the “party drug” that’s helping America’s veterans (and others).”Government regulators criminalized the
Scientific American reveals that researchers have found evidence of what they call “microchimerism” – the children’s cells are living in their mother’s… Read the rest “Mommy and me. (Or, I can’t get this kid out of my mind!)”
Lost in Transcription’s “genetical book review” is a great idea executed well. Not a review of books as literature, but a review of the science in literature.
From the… Read the rest “Genetical book review”
Laboratory Equipment plunges to the bottom of a pressing mystery – why the “king of fruits” packs such a pungent punch:
… Read the rest “Durian mystery revealed: why *does* it stink so deliciously?”Martin Steinhaus, from the German Research Center
SONG: “Complicated Man.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “New carnivorous harp sponge discovered… Read the rest “SONG: Complicated Man”
I think I’m happier not knowing exactly what this is illustrating. I mean, I think I can guess, but that’s not nearly as joy-inspiring as embracing the idea… Read the rest “Science Art: The Hairy Water Tortoise, Scientific American, December 21,1878”
Nature reveals the outdoor version of canaries in a coalmine – how researchers use swallows and homing pigeons to track pollution:
… Read the rest “Pollution-tracking by bird.”Nesting birds that feed on insects that hatch in
Laboratory Equipment points the way for the next big breakthrough in thinking machines:
… Read the rest “Quantum computers can work.”Many quantum algorithms require that particles’ spins be “entangled,” meaning that they’re all
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