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.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreI can’t beat Science Nordic’s headline. They’re talking about some tragically vicious beetle anatomy:
… Read the rest “Bizarre penis shaved by scientists”The many spines on the penis are just as nasty, sharp and destructive
UC Berkeley looks back to an old (and abandoned) method for making explosives and tweaks it to make renewable biofuels:
… Read the rest “Old process makes new fuels. By turning sugar into diesel.”Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel
We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm.
These are his aardvarks.
Earth-pigs.
After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally,… Read the rest “Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927”
Nikon (through Wired) presents some of the most amazing windows onto the microscopic world ever seen:
… Read the rest “Little things. Big pictures.”Super-close-ups of garlic, snail fossils, stinging nettle, bat embryos, bone cancer
PhysOrg has the details on the latest royal presence in Cairo:
… Read the rest “Egyptian princess found. (Not alive.)”Czech archaeologists have unearthed the 4,500-year-old tomb of a Pharaonic princess south of Cairo, in a finding that suggests
Nature reveals a setback in the search for life on Mars. We’re learning more about the atmosphere there, and there doesn’t seem to be enough methane:
… Read the rest “Cold planet Mars.”On Earth, life is responsible
SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. … Read the rest “SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)”
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared.
found on archive.org (pdf).
Mount Washington Valley Astronomy marks a dozen years of humans living in space:
… Read the rest “Happy 12 years in space, ISS astronauts.”On the 12th anniversary of crews continuously living and working aboard the International Space Station,
Yep. It’s the beholder. Discover shows how a D&D-playing kid helped solve a longstanding problem with how humans react to eyes:
… Read the rest “12-year-old solves psych problem with Monster Manual.”In 1998, [University of British Columbia psychologist
Digital Journal points out that we might already be in contact with aliens – we’re just not looking for the right kind of messages:
… Read the rest “Alien communication: More like Twitter, less like War and Peace.”The theory, proposed by James Benford, his
SONG: “Is There A Light?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “New Planet Is Closest Yet: Earth-Size … Read the rest “SONG: Is There A Light?”
Hi, neighbors.
Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything.
Everything.
Nature has a great pictorial guide called How to eat a Triceratops:
… Read the rest “Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.”Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his colleagues studied numerous Triceratops specimens
Nature listens to the strange tale of the beluga that sang like a human:
… Read the rest “Whale speaks human.”“Who told me to get out?” asked a diver, surfacing from a tank in which a whale named NOC lived. The beluga’s caretakers
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