A memorial algorithm
Scientific American reveals the moving mathematics behind the layout of the 9/11 memorial: The planners of the memorial, which will be dedicated this weekend where […]
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 moreDid you know…
… that Brian May, member of Queen, the man who wrote “We Will Rock You” and the soundtrack to Flash Gordon, took time out from […]
The spice… and the worm….
PhysOrg has us looking for the mouse-shadow on the second moon with the news that alien life is likelier on “Dune” planets: Instead of aqua […]
Science Art: Nine of Diamonds: Dyals (1702)
A playing card from a set explaining engineering tools to 18th century British players.
The star that shouldn’t be.
ABC Science puzzles over a star that, according to everything we know about stars, simply shouldn’t exist: The star, called SDSS102915+172927, is reported today in […]
Hot spots help health care
PBS Frontline looks at how one urban physician, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, has figured out how to fix our health care system – by using digital […]
Women are getting sexier… on the page.
PhysOrg reveals a one-sided increase in sexual imagery. Men are as manly now as in years past, but women are getting more “pornified” than ever: […]
Science in Hollywood
PhysOrg rolls out the red carpet for researchers with an invitation from screenwriters to scientists: Producers and writers for some of television’s most popular medical, […]
Food riots in five…four…three…
We’ve got until August 2013. All of us. Technology Review is teaching us how we can count down to the food riots: … Marco Lagi […]
Science Art: Locusta Indica (from Insecten-Belustigang by A.J. Rösel von Rosenhof)
Click to embiggen. As far as I can tell, the name of the volume from which this illustration came means “The Joy of Insects.” I’m […]
“Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates” by Squid Pro Crow.
Watasenia Scintillans Addresses the New Graduates by Squid Pro Crow So. If you’ve noticed me referring obliquely to a “special project” lately, or to “having […]
SONG: One In Ten
SONG: “One In Ten.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread […]
X leads to cancer cure.
BBC covers the latest cure to come from recreational drugs: Ecstasy is known to kill some cancer cells, but scientists have increased its effectiveness 100-fold, […]
Science Art: Misc Pollen, by Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Click to embiggen A bouquet of flowers, and one of the deadliest poisons known to humankind. From the image’s Wikimedia Commons page: Pollen from a […]
Coral killer: It’s sewage.
Science reveals the cause of the shoreline-threatening epidemic of coral decline. It’s simple – the reefs are sick to death of our crap: Nine years […]