Slipping on the thinking cap.
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state: The “thinking cap” is something like […]
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreAcne antibiotics help treat schizophrenia.
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 […]
Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909
Click to embiggen This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of […]
Silence! You fools! You will LEARN silence!
Technology Review cuts out all the chatter with their lowdown on an honest-to-God silence ray: Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial […]
Six-legged giant not extinct, found hiding on remote island.
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 Island […]
Wealth as a predictor of pushy driving.
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 […]
Bad bosses affect everything. Including the bottom line.
The Atlantic reveals just how bad it is for you, your family and your company when you’re stuck working for a bad boss: The more […]
Live in Hawaii. Pretend it’s Mars. Eat space food. Get paid.
Cornell is offering the opportunity of a lifetime for an astronaut fan: We are seeking participants for a 120 day Mars exploration analogue mission (Hawaii […]
Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon
Click to embiggen An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger. Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital […]
New World’s oldest rock carving: “Little Horny Man.”
And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history: The time frame during which humans first reached the […]
Dolphins are people too.
Or so the Belfast Telegraph says, with a report on scientists devising a document outlining dolphin rights: A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation […]
Flying squid. Yeah, that’s a relaxing concept.
Nature eases no one’s mind when the revered journal explains it’s actually more efficient for some squid fly than to swim: Squid of many species […]
Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912
Click to embiggen Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later […]
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!”
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake”, Washington […]
Corporate telepathy
New York Times takes a quick look at how retailers virtually read our minds by clocking all the little details: There are, however, some brief […]