I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “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 moreNPR takes a close look at an eye-catching insect… a new species of lacewing entomologists discovered on Flickr:
… Read the rest “New species discovered… on Flickr.”[Shaun] Winterton, a senior entomologist at the California Department
I can’t outdo the BBC’s headline on this story about a beautiful application for a strange, new material:
… Read the rest “Spider web glass protects birds on the Holy Island”A lookout tower at Lindisfarne has installed it to protect the hundreds
They look even more reptilian from the *inside*.
This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery:
… Read the rest “If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.”[Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory W.] Sullivan’s report
Wired (suitably enough) gets all hepped up over traces of a prehistoric Starbucks in Cahokia:
… Read the rest “Caffeine Junkies of the Lost Metropolis”In a new study, researchers have found the first direct evidence of black drink — not in shells
Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness:
… Read the rest “Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.”The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants
The Bangkok Post unearths the forgotten past of the lush, humid Antarctic jungle:
… Read the rest “Antarctic rainforest ready to be reborn.”The study of sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off Antarctica’s east coast revealed fossil
The rovers don’t seem to have the same way with words that Neil Armstrong did. From Curiosity’s twitter feed:
“I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I … Read the rest “Curiosity is on Mars”
A contented sloth peers out of the pages of St. George Mivart’s American Varieties of Animal Life. I have no idea who the artist is, or even why a book on American animals has aardvarks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 68, The Two-Toed Sloth, American Types of Animal Life, 1893.”
ScienceBlogs pours it on with research that links a popular artificial butter flavor with one of the brain-destroying processes of Alzheimer’s disease:
… Read the rest “Butter-flavored Alzheimer’s.”It found evidence that
The Creators Project is already turning attention from London to Rio, where Swiss engineers are planning to erect a giant, power-generating waterfall:
… Read the rest “Olympics 2016: powered by waterfall.”Designed by Swiss firm, RAAFA,
LiveScience looks at faint traces of deadly poisons that prove Paleolithic culture rose in Africa at the same time it did in Europe:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric poisoners push civilization’s start 20,000 years further back.”“Our research proves that the Later Stone Age emerged
Gigaom strolls into a safer future, thanks to car-sensing apps that can help smartphones save lives:
… Read the rest “Smartphones save lives?”Although both cars and smartphones are filled with sensors, the solution GM is testing
Grist welcomes a new citizen of Earth – a member of a species we thought was dead until they found a few last survivors on a barren island in the southern seas just this February. And now,… Read the rest ““Extinct” tree lobsters coming back. Happy birthday, giant stick insect!”
About 100 years ago, cigarette companies like Wills put collectible cards in their packs of cigarettes just like bubblegum companies did. Only Wills did it with engineering… Read the rest “Science Art: Giant Excavator, Wills’ Cigarettes.”
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