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 moreThrilled, Guardian is to introduce to its readers a new submarine species they’re calling the Jedi acorn worm:
… Read the rest “The Force is strong in this worm.”Yoda purpurata is one of three new species of deep-sea acorn worms discovered
A caisson is a machine for working under water.
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia.
Rise, German engineers. Rise.
Dive, German engineers. Dive.
Image found at Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889”
I’m taking a moment, with Archie McPhee, to celebrate the birth of a science dude.
Dude!
Michigan State University biochemists (and science artists!) have made a germy philosopher’s stone:
… Read the rest “Mighty bacteria make gold. Not a cold, gold.”“Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something
And, says the Sydney Morning Herald, more than three-quarters of the reef will have vanished within a decade:
… Read the rest “Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone.”A long-term investigation of the reef by scientists at Townsville’s
Laboratory Equipment finds a whole new depth to that umami thing. French chemists have devised an artificial tongue sensitive enough to tell the difference between proteins:
… Read the rest “Electric tongue tastes proteins.”Biosensors
National Geographic reveals the night monkeys and other bizarre creatures of the 70,000 acre jungle that explorers are calling “a heaven of biodiversity”:
… Read the rest “Eight new mammals discovered in Peru.”Rarely seen and
Is it cute?
It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is part of cuteness, usually. Less than a millimeter… Read the rest “Science Art: Tardigrade”
Once again, New Scientist delivers a headline I can’t beat. A statue the Nazis brought to Germany from Tibet has been found to have been made of stuff from space:
… Read the rest “Buddhist “Iron Man” found by Nazis is from space.”Known as the ‘iron man’,
It’s at http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/… whatever it is!
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Gigaom has the scoop on Tesla’s bid to change the face of America – by introducing a network of electric-car charging stations:
… Read the rest “Tesla unveils the electric filling station.”Eectric car maker Tesla announced on Monday
A black-and-white birth sequence.
From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”… Read the rest “Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.”
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi).
SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi… Read the rest “SONG: Particle”
Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk:
… Read the rest “The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.”he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system that, in combination
No one can possibly do better than the Archives of Sexual Behavior in describing this study. The article’s headline says all it needs to:
… Read the rest “The mere anticipation of an interaction with a woman can impair men’s cognitive performance.”The mere anticipation of an interaction with
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