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 […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
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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 […]
“The first human-humanoid handshake in space.”
That’s how ISS Commander Daniel Burbank describes his interaction with Robonaut 2 yesterday. PhysOrg has more on the space station’s new, robot crew member: On […]
Large Hadron researchers: “MORE POWER!”
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is driving toward a new breakthrough. All the physicists have to do is put the pedal to the […]
Toxic oil is toxic.
PhysOrg has bad news for the Gulf of Mexico. Oil spills are even more toxic than we thought: The study, spearheaded by the UC Davis […]
Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.
TG Daily reports on a new hope for clearing up our old landfills – by feeding the plastic to a very special rain-forest mushroom: Pestalotiopsis […]
Science Art: “Engine of the Veteran Association” from Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Department, 1899.
Click to embiggen slightly This device paraded at the inaugurations of President Grover Cleveland and the Statue of Liberty. It also put out fires, nobly, […]
Supplemental: If you really want to see how tDCS works…
The brain-zapping process broken down, in an Informed Consent video: And you can always try making your own device….
Zapping into flow.
New Scientist reawakens that old dream of turning on the creative juices as if you were turning on a tap… or flipping a switch: I […]
Home-cooked Parkinson’s.
BBC reports on neurologists who’ve managed to not only create brain cells in the lab – but to make Parkinson’s-diseased cells from scratch: The breakthrough […]
Tune into the li-fi.
Wired is all aglow over a new wireless transmission system that uses light instead of radio waves: Using off-the-shelf electronics, he can stream videos using […]
Testosterone and bad ideas.
Irish Times reveals the link between lousy decision-making and the hormone linked to lust and aggression: Dr Nick Wright and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust […]
Skin becomes brain
BBC News ponders what it means for our bodies when Stanford University professors start shuffling around our cellular building blocks. Not turning stem cells into […]
Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a […]
Inside magic mushrooms… inside the MRI
Imperial College, London, is learning what makes psilocybin mushrooms *trippy* – and what that means for our brains: Professor David Nutt, from the Department of […]