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 moreNature asks a question that gets more peculiar the more one considers it. A Japanese researcher looking at tree rings from two ancient cedars found unmistakable traces of a giant burst of… Read the rest “Why don’t we know what blew up in 774?”
In all likelihood, that is. New Scientist doesn’t actually *know* your password, of course. But they know that if you’re over 55, you’re more likely to be secure than… Read the rest “Grandad’s got a better password than you, kiddo.”
This is concept art originally painted to help NASA and ESA imagine what it might be like to explore Jupiter and its moons Ganymede and Europa – part of push to explore “outer … Read the rest “Science Art: Artist concept of proposed mission to the Jupiter system, NASA/JPL, 2009”
LiveScience unearths a scientific controversy over what seems to be a plague victim’s corpse defaced by vampire hunters:
… Read the rest “Renaissance grave reveals what it takes to kill a vampire.”The controversy begins with a mass grave of 16th-century
I’m getting this from Nature, although New Scientist has also been covering it. A group called “the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary… Read the rest “So the anarchists are killing scientists now…”
BBC breaks some not-terribly-encouraging news from the stoner desk. Neuromedical researchers have found marijuana-based meds don’t slow the progress multiple sclerosis:
… Read the rest “Cannabis pills not effective against MS.”Lead
Poppies.
For Memorial Day.
Funny how that saturated color automatically looks so 1970s now, when all they were trying to do was represent things precisely.
[via archive.org… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 1, “Biosystematic Studies in Papaver, Section Oxytona,” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1974”
Alexander Anderson, medical doctor and illustrator, is remembered as America’s first wood engraver. He helped Samuel Mitchill explain what that was wriggling on the end of the … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate II, Mitchill’s Fishes of New-York, by Alexander Anderson, 1815.”
PhysOrg finds something weird about the nicotine-based pesticides that seem to be making trouble for bees. Neonicotinoids make them picky eaters:
… Read the rest “Pesticides make bees… picky.”The UC San Diego biologists focused
MIT’s Technology Review is not a publication ordinarily given to hyperbole. So it’s a little distracting when their web desk declares that Facebook is heading for an implosion… Read the rest “MIT: Facebook is about to kill the Internet. (Seriously?)”
The health desk at The Atlantic might be looking a little bit like a wood shop, thanks to their reporting on the medical marvels of bone putty:
… Read the rest “Putty fixes bones like chair legs.”Researchers at the University of Georgia Regenerative
PhysOrg gets me all het up over this modern-day alchemist who’s figured out how to transmute greenhouse gases into useful materials… and energy:
… Read the rest “Turning pollution into gold.”Making carbon-based products
…bad consequences follow. Forbes traces the problems with the most authoritative “we can cure the gay out of you” study:
… Read the rest “When bad science happens…”[Dr. Robert L.] Spitzer now looks back with
When you’re a pioneering aviator, it pays to have a brother who’s an illustrator.
From the Tissandier collection in the Library of Congress, a dream of the… Read the rest “Science Art: Paillettes de glace eclairées par les rayons du soleil observées en ballon, by M. Albert Tissandier”
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