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. BBC News: The Church […]
Science 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, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreWearing 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 […]
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 of trees […]
Electricity vs. depression.
Medical Xpress seems quite excited over the prospect of using “deep brain stimulation” to cure depression: The study was led by Helen S. Mayberg, MD, […]
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: University of […]
Science Art: Chlamyphore tronque, Chlamyphorus truncatus, Harlan, by René Primevère Lesson
Click to embiggen The pink fairy armadillo wishes you a happy New Year. So, I am sure, would R.P. Lesson. [via Scientific Illustration]
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: In the first […]
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 […]
Last Neanderthals.
Next thing you know, they’re going to be showing up in our back yards. But Past Horizons says the last Neanderthals were about 8,000 years […]
Blood rice.
Not rice the cost of which is blood (I mean, not as in “blood diamonds”) but rice that PopSci says actually grows human blood: HSA […]
Science Art: Hickory, Norway Spruce, Chestnut, and Red Cedar & Pitch Pine, L. Prang chromolithograph.
From the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. Best wishes for a well-garlanded Yuletide.
SONG: Rocket Africa
SONG: “Rocket Africa.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “One man’s mission to put Ugandans in space”, CNN, 4 […]
Closer to Vesta.
NASA’s gotten downright cozy with that cute little planetoid: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its […]
Man bites dog; bug eats frog.
Science Daily dwells on a bizarre reversal of the usual order of things: …[I]n an unprecedented predator-prey role reversal, a certain group of ground beetle […]
Bb below the lowest C.
Not new research, but I just learned that the lowest note in the Universe: The black hole resides in the Perseus cluster of galaxies located […]