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.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreNature reveals that no matter what language you’re reading, your brain lights up the same way when you do it:
… Read the rest “Reading really is fundamental. Neurologically. (Or: A Good Book Is Universal.)”Previous studies have suggested that alphabetic writing systems (such
Boston Globe profiles the geneticist and Alzheimer’s expert who played organ on Aerosmith’s last album:
… Read the rest “Tanzi is a rock star.”It was 2009 when Dr. Rudy Tanzi was asked to appear in a GQ magazine
Nature reveals something fascinating about what happens when a creative brain turns on the creativity:
… Read the rest “Rapping inside an MRI. (On freestyle neurology.)”Freestyle rapping — in which a performer improvises a song by stringing together
The dome of the heavens, 1970s-style.
Found in a very special pdf in archive.org – a book on how we can look out at the universe and figure out what we’re seeing.
Which means one shall be forthcoming soon. And a penitential cover.
So it goes.
Nature goes deep, deep into the subconscious pit of our fears… or at least the Pacific Ocean… to present the underwater answer to the Venus flytrap:
… Read the rest “Carnivorous sponges found. (As if you didn’t have enough to worry about.)”Which is where MBARI’s remotely
Nature explores the strange mathematics of yuck – the neurological reason why we find dissonant music hard to listen to:
… Read the rest “Why is dissonance noisy?”Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, made up of notes
I’m not sure when this happened, but NOAA thinks they’ve finally identified the mysterious underwater sound known as ‘The Bloop’:
… Read the rest “‘The Bloop’ identified.”The broad spectrum sounds
Guardian has some unusual insight into the human brain, thanks to a man whose Parkinson’s has left him confined to a wheelchair, but who is still able to ride a bicycle:
… Read the rest “Confined to a wheelchair, but still rides a bike…”This phenomenon
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move.
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ITProPortal.com reports on a heightened state of alert in the halls of the government offices in charge of the very biggest missiles there are… because somebody just stole a kinda… Read the rest “NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.”
Science Tech Daily says in the parasite world, it’s turtles all the way down. No matter how much of a *parasite* you are… like the brain-eating cordyceps fungus, for example…… Read the rest “What does the zombie-making fungus fear? Its own parasite.”
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is messing up a perfectly neat theory about how the universe fits together:
… Read the rest “Supersymmetry sideswiped. (“No, it doesn’t work that way!” says LHC.)”Supersymmetry, or SUSY, has gained popularity as a way to explain some
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