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 moreWho knows what dim, multiform entities could yet lurk for silent millennia beneath that hostile, white blanket of impervious snow and unrelenting wind? Washington Post is almost ready… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.”
National Geographic is watching South Florida with a growing sense of unease over the alien monsters eating any creature who wanders into the Everglades:
… Read the rest “Python problem grows in the Everglades”…[T]his is “the
Vienna’s University of Veterinary Medicine has been listening to the mice as the tiny Casanovas sing to impress the babes:
… Read the rest “A house mouse serenade.”It has been known for some time that house mice (Mus musculus
Into the K-hole and out of altogether darker hole… NPR looks at the new use for an old club drug (and veterinary anesthetic):
… Read the rest ““Special K” for depression.”[O]ne of the challenges in treating these severely depressed
E.D. Leavitt, Massachusetts mechanical engineer, designed many huge machines in the 1870s.They moved things, macerated and mangled them, mined and melted them.… Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Pumping Engine, from Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, 1880.”
Popular Mechanics recently investigated the forensics of the zombie head shot:
… Read the rest “The Walking Dead anatomy lesson.”Dr. Steven Schlozman, has written extensively about the brain function of undead zombies (as opposed to
Scientists have come one step closer to creating artificial life by building a cell membrane from scratch:
… Read the rest “Building cells from the outside in.”“We don’t understand this really fundamental step in our existence, which is
The Chronicle of Higher Education is watching closely as a tenured Stanford professor leaves his secure job to teach at an online startup:
… Read the rest “The new U: Take the red pill”Sebastian Thrun, a professor of computer science
I never thought that within my lifetime, we’d be planning – as PopSci reports – to send flying robots to find aliens on Saturn’s moons:
… Read the rest “Drones of Titan”Physicist Jason Barnes
SONG: “Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: Squid Pro Crow.
SOURCE: Based on “Exotic creatures… Read the rest “SONG: Bioluminescence at the Dragon Vent”
This early ’60s vision of the future (in all likelihood, right now) was painted by visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked in industrial design as well as making films… Read the rest “Science Art: From United States Steel International, a porfolio of probabilities, by Syd Mead”
National Geographic ruins the illusion that maybe larks and mockingbirds might be safe from shark attacks. Nope. Songbirds are being found in tiger sharks’ stomachs:
… Read the rest “Sharks eat whatever they want. Even songbirds.”Marcus Drymon,
Science Daily tries to figure out what the Greek gorilla or Austrian orangutan were really like:
… Read the rest “The Great Apes of Europe.”To date scientists have assumed that great apes went extinct in Europe at least 9 million
The Independent goes way back, digging up the history of the diva of the pharaohs:
… Read the rest “Rock star buried in the Valley of the Kings”It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found there, said Mansour
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