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.)
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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 Freakonomics guys look at what it means to be able to make memories from scratch:
… Read the rest “They really can remember for you, wholesale….”Psychologists Andrew Clark, Robert A. Nash, Gabrielle Fincham, and Giuliana Mazzoni conducted a three-stage
And it’s a USB! Well, that’s what Science Daily says it’s made of, anyway. It’s formally called a “Xi_b^*” and it’s just been spotted at the… Read the rest “There’s a new subatomic particle.”
The formal name for this image: LHCb: Event display presented at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference showing a B0s meson decaying into a ?+ and ?- pair.
It’s what happens … Read the rest “Science Art: CERN-EX-1107175 01 by the LHCB Team at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.”
PhysOrg calls it “man’s remotest relative,” a living thing that has no branch on the tree of life. Why can’t they just call a shoggoth a shoggoth, man?:
… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Proto-organism found in remote lake sludge.”The elusive,
New Scientist discusses the future of the academy, in which teachers have been replaced by essay-grading robots:
… Read the rest “Robots make the grade on essay questions.”Grading software from nine manufacturers, which together cover 97 per
Science News chills us to the bone with the latest breakthrough from Mark Mayford and Susumu Tonegawa, neuroscientists at Scripps and MIT, respectively. They’ve been able to manufacture… Read the rest “You will remember… FEAR!”
Scientific American veers into “No, really?” territory with news that cocaine ages your brain prematurely:
… Read the rest “Coke ages brains.”“As we age we all lose gray matter,” Karen Ersche of the Behavioral
…of killing endangered animals. Or at least Nature hypes up enough evidence to put Chinese medicine on trial:
… Read the rest “DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…”“There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products.
This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909.
Eskimos and tapirs.
You can browse through your… Read the rest “Science Art: Amerique, from the Larousse pour tous encyclopedia, 1909.”
Physics World has a solution for the Pioneer Anomaly – the strange slowdown experienced by both Pioneer space probes as they passed beyond the farthest reach of the solar wind. It’s… Read the rest “Here’s why Pioneer slowed down…”
Scientific American is seething with the swarm of possibilities that bring every human decision down to the level of bees:
… Read the rest “You are a hive mind.”To Dr. Thomas Seeley, a professor of neurobiology at Cornell University,
The space administration needs YOU – and your vision of what we should do on Mars:
… Read the rest “NASA wants your Mars ideas.”“This is a two-way capability open to anyone,” says Doug McCuistion, director of the
I think I’m much more sympathetic to this viewpoint than might at first appear. New Scientist reports on medical philosophy that holds that when kids are in pain and discomfort, their… Read the rest “Darwinian pediatrics: Painkillers are *counterproductive.*”
This is a flatworm. A German flatworm. It may be a distant cousin of the planarians that hypnotized Dutch artist M.C. Escher with their two-dimensional lives and their bizarre ability to… Read the rest “Science Art:Dugesia Anatomy Schematic, by Andreas Neudecker”
SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature,… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside the Box””
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