Obama’s dead dolphin problem.
The U.S. government would rather you not, according to Digital Journal, worry your caring little head about the dead dolphins washing up in the Gulf […]
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 moreMiniature 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 […]
When 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 […]