Write wrongs with editing therapy.
Scientific American comes close to my ink-stained heart with their interview with psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson, a leading authority on using story editing to […]
SONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read morePrinted dishes.
Fast Company has its eyes on tomorrow’s dinner with a new application for 3D printing – food printed to order: The newest 3-D food printer, […]
Smart pills.
Reuters reports on a potential Alzheimer’s cure that helps grow more brain cells: “We make new neurons every day in our brain,” Andrew Pieper of […]
Science Art: PDB_1h54_EBI by Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute
Click to embiggen. I guess I’m on a Lactobacillus kick. This is not confetti celebrating a Lactobacillus party, and it’s not a photograph of what […]
Antibiotics: not so good for your *brain*, either.
The Economist reveals the strange connection between your intestinal flora and your mood: [R]esearchers, led by Javier Bravo of University College, Cork, split their rodent […]
Antibiotics: not so good for you.
Not in the long run, anyway. That’s how Wired sums up research indicating that our wonder drugs are killing the good bugs off for good: […]
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 […]
Did 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 […]