Passively untrue?
Science Daily actively engages readers with research that shows that a lack of fact-checking in articles undermines readers’ concept of truth: The study found that […]
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 moreFit Britain.
Is is just me or is the BBC sounding insufferably superior when it reports that the English are healthier than Americans: But despite looking, the […]
China’s nuclear future.
The Guardian is looking clean, abundant and safe as it talks about China’s mission to do nuclear power better – with thorium: Imagine how the […]
Robot lawyers.
It’s not news when more factory workers get laid off because their jobs have been automated. But New York Times seems to agree that when […]
Kiss controller
Why use your hands to manipulate the electronics, asks Georgia Tech digital artist Hye Yeon Nam, when you could use a little affection instead?: Project […]
Science Art: Euterpe Teutamis &c. from Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies by William C. Hewitson, 1856
Butterflies from the genus Euterpe, named for the muse of flute-playing and epic poetry known as the “giver of delight”… but also the name of […]
Mass Extinction #6
The death of the dinosaurs was just a drop in the bucket compared to some of the real mass extinction events out there. And PhysOrg […]
Sex, 40 million B.C.
The book of love might be rewritten by each generation, but the pictures don’t change much. So MSNBC proves with its personal look at an […]
Gotta go? Gotta choose!
The Association for Psychological Science really put the pressure on our decision-making process by drinking a few cups of coffee and publishing possibly the strangest […]
Blood. Sweat. Horses.
Archaeology Daily closes in on the real story behind ancient China’s legendary blood-sweating horses: The bones of 80 horses unearthed from the mausoleum of a […]
Arctic submarines.
The US Navy, Nature reports, is taking some time out to give scientists a look at what goes on beneath the Arctic Circle: Nature talked […]
Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.
Click to embiggen Reddit user Crooooow was flying from Florida to Chicago when the pilot announced that passengers could see something interesting out of the […]
Smell of fertility.
It’s fairly well known that men react slightly differently to women when the women are ovulating. What the New York Times reveals is that men […]
The stars are louder
The song of the spheres – or, as BBC puts it, the music of the stars – is getting easier for astronomers to hear: Bill […]
SONG: Answering the Call
SONG: “Answering the Call.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Koalas bellow to attract a mate, BBC News, 18 […]