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 moreBBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk:
… Read the rest “The music of spider-silk strings.”Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical University
Over the transom this morning, I just got word of an amazing science-music-art project that combined six University College London biomedical researchers with six bands to make a pretty… Read the rest “A salute: Trying and trying and trying by Gethan Dick.”
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state:
… Read the rest “Slipping on the thinking cap.”The “thinking cap” is something
The Independent reports on one of those weird medical side effect whodathunkits (like Rogaine and Viagra coming from blood pressure medications). Minocycline, a drug usually used to … Read the rest “Acne antibiotics help treat schizophrenia.”
This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of Engineering Wonders of the World, this was ripping… Read the rest “Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909”
Technology Review cuts out all the chatter with their lowdown on an honest-to-God silence ray:
… Read the rest “Silence! You fools! You will LEARN silence!”Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
NPR describes the joy of explorers finding “extinct” tree lobsters – the world’s largest known stick insects, once native only to Australia’s Lord Howe… Read the rest “Six-legged giant not extinct, found hiding on remote island.”
I’m not sure how I feel about the science behind this, but it’s probably worth a closer look. LA Times reports on a new study showing people with fancier cars tend to “cheat”… Read the rest “Wealth as a predictor of pushy driving.”
The Atlantic reveals just how bad it is for you, your family and your company when you’re stuck working for a bad boss:
… Read the rest “Bad bosses affect everything. Including the bottom line.”The more negative the bosses’ management style, the less
Cornell is offering the opportunity of a lifetime for an astronaut fan:
… Read the rest “Live in Hawaii. Pretend it’s Mars. Eat space food. Get paid.”We are seeking participants for a 120 day Mars exploration analogue mission (Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue
An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger.
Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital subtraction angiography – taking an X-ray of some… Read the rest “Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon”
And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history:
… Read the rest “New World’s oldest rock carving: “Little Horny Man.””The time frame during which humans first reached the Americas remains
Or so the Belfast Telegraph says, with a report on scientists devising a document outlining dolphin rights:
… Read the rest “Dolphins are people too.”A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation and dolphin behaviour
Nature eases no one’s mind when the revered journal explains it’s actually more efficient for some squid fly than to swim:
… Read the rest “Flying squid. Yeah, that’s a relaxing concept.”Squid of many species have been seen to ‘fly’
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later that he went after Santa Claus in his… Read the rest “Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912”
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