RIP Andre Hedrick. If you are reading this, you owe him a little something.
The Register pays respects to an unsung hero of computer freedom: CPRM is widely used today as the encryption scheme for SD cards. But by […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreSecret vegetarian recruiting tool: tick bites!
Sci-News reveals one more weapon in the war on carnivores – tick bites that
A new, magnetic atom
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 […]
They built a living jellyfish out of a rat’s heart.
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 […]
Science Art: Irregular satellites of Saturn by Cocu.
Click to embiggen Saturn has more moons than many give it credit for. Wikipedia user Cocu knows, though. He writes: Orbits of the irregular satellites […]
SONG: National Primate Home
SONG: “National Primate Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees to be retired”, Nature, […]
Solar balloon wins NASA award
A new day is dawning, SpaceDaily.com has announced, with a sunny space balloon rising to new heights: The “High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the […]
Uncovering the medical secrets of our past… through dentistry.
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 […]
Three-hour sex sessions exhaust squid.
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 […]
The Neuroscience of Gotye.
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 […]
Fear of crowds – it might not be so irrational.
The Atlantic reveals the fluid dynamics of deadly mob disasters that shows how crowds can be so blindly powerful: “It happens like magic,” says Dirk […]
Science Art: Chimpanzee, from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s.
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 […]
Planets stay in the dark – for want of the money to see them.
Scientific American editorializes on the planetary implications of NASA’s budget being cut: The president’s proposed budget for 2013 includes drastic cutbacks to planetary science of […]
Chimp retirement plan.
Nature echoes the call for the National Institutes of Health to create a humane retirement plan for their primate research assistants: Last December, a report […]
Archaeologists: DeSoto WUZ HEER.
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 […]