These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French…
Read moreI found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the othe…
Read moreA General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that wo…
Read moreYes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI.
From the image description on Wikimedia C…
Read moreSONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal j…
Read moreThe fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking …
Read moreAnthropology.net looks at two 7th-century graves from different parts of England — Kent and Dorset — that prove African-descended people were living in England practically… Read the rest “DNA reveals Africans in medieval England.”
bioGraphic celebrates the discovery, at long last, of the phenomenon behind a mysterious wave of rather horrific sea star deaths on America’s Pacific Coast. Now, researchers are… Read the rest “Sea star killer found. Now what?”
These are some of the first goldfish ever seen in Europe.
The image (which I found in a great Public Domain Review article) came from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine, written in … Read the rest “Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon ”
Or maybe vice versa. At any rate, the University of Sydney has published findings that demonstrate depression is physiologically really close to jet lag, and both problems seem to involve… Read the rest “Depression is a form of jet lag.”
A photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s collection of Images from NASA/Cape Canaveral.
Here are a couple of quotes from a recent Florida Today story describing the launch:… Read the rest “Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.”
Caltech says that, thanks to an NSF grant, they’ve found where all the dark matter has been hiding. That’s up to 50 percent of matter in the universe, the stuff that doesn’t… Read the rest “Where the dark matter hides.”
NPR reports on a study of 2,100 ordinary, not super fit people in their 60s and 70s who spent two years on an intensive regimen of diet, exercise, socializing, and brain training, and found… Read the rest “Massive study finds the lifestyle to keep your brain young.”
OK, not weasel but marten – which is close enough. Asahi Shimbun writes on the identity of a dragon mummy known as a Koryu held in the Shosoin Repository being finally revealed by X-ray… Read the rest “Dragon? Or weasel?”
This is a game theory diagram from the paper, “Limited backward induction: foresight and behavior in sequential games,” though I found it on Wikimedia Commons.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A four stage sequential game with a foresight bound, Marco Mantovani”
SONG: “Something’s Knocking on the Door”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “China’s Bold Plan Unveiled: A Deep-Sea Space Station 6560 Feet… Read the rest “SONG: Something’s Knocking on the Door”
From the pages of the November-December 1926 issue of Natural History magazine (found on archive.org) flies “The Aethereal Sylph (Cyanolesbia coelestis aetherius Chapman)”.… Read the rest “Science Art: A New Hummingbird From Ecuador, 1926”
IT Pro echoes the warning of cybersecurity professionals that, since the Pentagon reported on China’s Salt Typhoon group broaching a U.S. National Guard system, we should assume… Read the rest “Salt Typhoon (probably) has peeked into all sorts of U.S. gov’t computers.”
Ars Technica reports on a new sort of cathode that’s made of materials that are abundant (therefore cheap), that store electrons and let them move rapidly (so it’s a good conductor),… Read the rest “A self-healing rechargeable battery made of cheap elements.”
This image is actually much older than 1934; it’s just that that is when William Beebe published it (courtesy of the New York Public Library) in his book Half Mile Down, which is both… Read the rest “Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934”
IFL Science introduces us to “plastivores” — a species of waxworm caterpillars (often thought of as beehive pests) that get fat gorging themselves on plastic waste… Read the rest “Hungry caterpillars eat plastic pollution”
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