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 moreThe Register pays respects to an unsung hero of computer freedom:
… Read the rest “RIP Andre Hedrick. If you are reading this, you owe him a little something.”CPRM is widely used today as the encryption scheme for SD cards. But by the summer of 2001, and thanks largely to Andre’s
Sci-News reveals one more weapon in the war on carnivores – tick bites that trigger allergies to red meat:
… Read the rest “Secret vegetarian recruiting tool: tick bites!”Delayed anaphylaxis – a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction – to
ArsTechnica looks into the fiery plasma of a blazing neutron star to discover a bizarre frontier of physics based on stuff that’s made from a new kind of atom, unlike any on Earth:
… Read the rest “A new, magnetic atom”Bonds
Nature voyages to the Island of Dr. Moreau… or at least in the same region… to speak with a scientist who enthusiastically made a living jellyfish out of a rat’s heart… Read the rest “They built a living jellyfish out of a rat’s heart.”
Saturn has more moons than many give it credit for.
Wikipedia user Cocu knows, though.
He writes: Orbits of the irregular satellites of Saturn. Image created with Celestia… Read the rest “Science Art: Irregular satellites of Saturn by Cocu.”
SONG: “National Primate Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees… Read the rest “SONG: National Primate Home”
A new day is dawning, SpaceDaily.com has announced, with a sunny space balloon rising to new heights:
… Read the rest “Solar balloon wins NASA award”The “High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun” project, or HEROES,
New Scientist takes a shine to the science of archaeo-dentistry… OK, I made that name up. But there really are experts out there who can tell you how Neanderthals lived – and … Read the rest “Uncovering the medical secrets of our past… through dentistry.”
I can do no better than that LiveScience headline. Why is it so many of the most fascinating cephalopod research stories are about their multi-limbed reproductive excesses?:
… Read the rest “Three-hour sex sessions exhaust squid.”Dumpling
Fun to read Sound on Sound’s behind-the-mixing-board analysis of what made “Somebody That I Used To Know” so darn catchy – even though it breaks some Top-40 rules… Read the rest “The Neuroscience of Gotye.”
The Atlantic reveals the fluid dynamics of deadly mob disasters that shows how crowds can be so blindly powerful:
… Read the rest “Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.”“It happens like magic,” says Dirk Helbing, a professor in
Here’s an ape with plenty of character – plenty of, dare I think it, soul.
This is not the first image from Brehm’s Tierleben (or “Brehm’s Life of Animals”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Chimpanzee, from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s.”
Scientific American editorializes on the planetary implications of NASA’s budget being cut:
… Read the rest “Planets stay in the dark – for want of the money to see them.”The president’s proposed budget for 2013 includes drastic cutbacks to planetary
Nature echoes the call for the National Institutes of Health to create a humane retirement plan for their primate research assistants:
… Read the rest “Chimp retirement plan.”Last December, a report from the US Institute of Medicine
The Wilmington, NC, Star News celebrates a rare Floridian trace of a Hernan De Soto’s march from Tampa Bay up through Tennessee, into Arkansas and down to New Orleans. The 16th century… Read the rest “Archaeologists: DeSoto WUZ HEER.”
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