One scary reason why the poor stay poor.
The New Republic looks at the science of choice… and the mental costs of not being able to afford much: In the 1990s, social psychologists […]
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 moreChimpanzee hunters drive endangered monkeys to the brink.
Not people hunting chimpanzees, Scientific American reports, but chimpanzees hunting monkeys: According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology, this […]
Skilled Veterans Corps heads into the fire.
BBC reports on a team of senior heroes, coming out of retirement – literally – to fight the radiation at Fukushima power station: The retired […]
“Werewolf family” gene discovered.
Scientists studying Mexico’s family of sideshow entertainers – all of whom are covered head-to-foot in hair – and similar family in China have made a […]
Science Art: Laggania cambria, statue by Espen Horn (photo by H. Zell)
Click to embiggen This is an anomalocaridid – a really big, really old shrimp-like critter – named Laggania cambria. These were as big as it […]
Rule #34 – and what it says about us.
Time asks probing questions of the the researchers who studied all the porn on the internet: Why did you decide to analyze online porn searches? […]
Science Art (from new NASA exhibit): Titan, by Daniel Zeller (2005)
This ink-on-paper drawing of Saturn’s moon is one of the 70 pieces in the new “NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration” exhibit at the National Air […]
Endeavour’s last touchdown.
Historic video: That’s the second-to-last shuttle mission. Ever. [via Washington Post]
LHC milestone: As dense as it gets.
Digital Journal reports that the Large Hadron Collider has another superlative to stick in its yearbook. As well as being “most likely to succeed” and […]
Science Art: “Fig 44: Painting of a Bantu Wedding Dance” from The Pre-Historic Period in South Africa, 1910
Click to embiggen It’s a party! I can’t tell if those are balloons or knobkerries. Either way, windows would have been broken… were there windows […]
Reindeer can see invisible things. Of course.
BBC brings back our belief in Santa Claus with an update from the Arctic Circle… that reindeer can see ultraviolet light: “If you’re a bumblebee, […]
Measles rising.
The aptly named PLoS blog “The Panic Virus” brings together a few disturbing strands of information about the anti-vaccination movement and the growing threat of […]
The 100-Year Starship
OnOrbit Alpha wants all you really long-sighted business & organizational experts out there to know the Pentagon’s research arm wants your help in conquering space: […]
SONG: Without the Sun
SONG: “Without the Sun.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Stress can shorten telomeres in childhood, Nature, 17 May […]
Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918
Click to embiggen and animate This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil […]