Miniature Holy War (over huge holy library)
The Jewish nation of Israel and the Muslim nation of Jordan are duking it out, BBC News reports, over the world’s oldest Christian library: A […]
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreWhen life was more easily lost
Science Daily takes us back to an age undreamed of, when shining cities gleamed like jewels beneath the stars. Hither came archaeologists, seeking what killed […]
Tomorrow is over THERE.
SciAm looks this way and that at the way our minds work, trying to find out which way the future lies: The Pompuraawan, a remote […]
Science Art: Viperine Boa, James Francis Stephens, 1802.
Boa viperina, as seen in George Shaw’s General zoology, or systematic natural history. You can browse through the book at archive.org… if you’ve got a […]
SONG: Blood Sweat Horses (Hàn Xiě Mǎ)
SONG: “Blood Sweat Horses (Hàn Xiě Mǎ)”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Mausoleum find rekindles ancient Chinas blood […]
Sacred greenhouses.
DiscoveryNews digs up evidence of American slaves holding religious rituals and conducting scientific research in the masters’ greenhouses: As they dug below a north-facing back […]
To Mercury.
The BBC warms up to NASA’s latest mission, which is about to get a close look at the planet Mercury: Messenger has had to use […]
Science Art: Saturn I Booster Test
Click to embiggen Little version of a big rocket. Photo from NasaImages.org: A Saturn I booster model is set up for testing in NASA Lewis […]
Mama’s got a big brain.
Scientific American refutes the mommy-brain myth with new research that shows new moms’ brains actually get bigger: Structural changes in animal brains, says National Institutes […]
Blood Falls.
National Geographic Expeditions takes an ominous look at aliens in Antarctica: A blood-red waterfall pouring out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys […]
Inside Fukushima
Nature has a great look at what’s going on inside the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged by the tsunami: So, without emergency cooling, the temperature at […]
Healthy germs.
Nature takes a second look at the best kind of respiratory infections – the bacteria that fight off the flu: A research team led by […]
Bill Gates takes on the autism vaccine army.
I’ve never inspired 50,000 people to protest anything. I’ve never really missed it… until Wired mentioned just how many people Bill Gates pissed off by […]
Science Art: The Kincaid Site in Massac County, Illinois, by Herbert Roe, 2004
At one point in history, one of the world’s largest cities was in America – and it wasn’t New York or Los Angeles. It was […]
This week’s Worst Headline award.
…goes to PopSci for yesterday’s tragically incorrect Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years Almost Certainly Won’t Cause a Huge Natural Disaster: Past supermoons have coincided […]