Visionary Mayan tobacco.
Discovery savors the very faint aroma of a 1,300-year-old Mayan tobacco flask – the first physical evidence that Mayans used super-strong tobacco:
… Read the rest “Visionary Mayan tobacco.”None of the nicotine by-products
Science 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…
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SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreScience Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
These symbols show steps in various chemical processes – the things you can do to change substances. Well, the things chemical engineers can do, one… Read the rest “Science Art: Pfd-symbols, from the free open source program, Dia.”
Fight to be tiniest.
WaPo covers the war between a newly discovered frog and an itsy bitsy fish over which one is the smallest vertebrate:
… Read the rest “Fight to be tiniest.”An article Wednesday in the journal PLoS One named Paedophryne amauensis
Workout in a pill. No, really.
MIT Tech Review is finally announcing part of that unimaginable future we’ve all been waiting for – fat-burning exercise in capsule form:
… Read the rest “Workout in a pill. No, really.”Researchers have discovered a natural
A yellow viper with horns over its eyes.
Not a fever dream. Not a Discovery photoshop. No, it’s a newly discovered snake named Matilda:
… Read the rest “A yellow viper with horns over its eyes.”Matilda, technically known as Atheris matildae, was named after the daughter of Tim
Really dark matter.
The fun thing, New Scientist seems to be saying, about dark matter right now is that it’s really dark. Like, really, really not a glimmer of light at all:
… Read the rest “Really dark matter.”Yet any hopes that the nature
Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598
A medieval hunt for the “brownfish, or baleen.” Centuries before we got our light and energy by burning petroleum, we got it from whales.
This illustration comes from a series… Read the rest “Science Art: Braunfische oder Balenen (Plate 98), Johann Saur (after Lakas Schan), Fischbuch, das ist, aussführliche Beschreibung und lebendige…, 1598”
The first church of file-sharing: Kopimism.
The Swedes *really* like their torrents. They revere them. It’s not just entertainment any more – file-sharing is a religion. Literally.
… Read the rest “The first church of file-sharing: Kopimism.”The Church of Kopimism
Wearing the senior citizen suit.
That’s what designers will be doing to make stores and furniture and *everything else* comfortable for aging Baby Boomer consumers. Discover looks at the way MIT is putting young… Read the rest “Wearing the senior citizen suit.”
More wolves, more trees.
File this Washington Post story under “unintended consequences,” maybe. Researchers in Yellowstone Park are noting that as wolf populations are rebounding, the number… Read the rest “More wolves, more trees.”
Electricity vs. depression.
Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression:
… Read the rest “Electricity vs. depression.”The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, professor in the Departments
A closer look at fish feet.
Oh, tetrapod. How Science Daily says you’ve changed. The first walkers, they’re saying, may have had more to do with floods than droughts:
… Read the rest “A closer look at fish feet.”University of Oregon scientist
Science Art: Chlamyphore tronque, Chlamyphorus truncatus, Harlan, by René Primevère Lesson
The pink fairy armadillo wishes you a happy New Year.
So, I am sure, would R.P. Lesson.
Creatures of the Dragon Vent.
Guardian is taking a closer look at some of the strangest living things from one of the most peculiar places on Earth:
… Read the rest “Creatures of the Dragon Vent.”In the first ever expedition to explore and take samples from the “Dragon
Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.”
PhysOrg has something new for fearful flyers to obsess over. The further an airline is from its break-even point – either losing money or making a healthy profit – the safer … Read the rest “Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.””