Conservative amygdalas are concerned.
The Telegraph reports on new brain studies that find a difference between “liberal” brains and “conservative” brains, equating the old-ways-are-best mindset with larger anxiety-processing areas: […]
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 moreGene weapon vs. bee killers
Varroa mites, the BBC reminds us, are one of the worst enemies honeybees face in these difficult days. But now, there’s a genetic front opening […]
80 percent of America’s antibiotics go to livestock.
Wired examines the economy of our antibiotic culture: Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first […]
Science Art: Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of winter solstice on northern hemisphere by Przemyslaw “Blueshade” Idzkiewicz
Click to embiggen Image from Wikimedia Commons, showing the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) at noon in the Central European time zone. Labeled in […]
SONG: Planet of Diamonds
SONG: “Planet of Diamonds”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists Discover the First Carbon-Rich Planet – Which May […]
Invisible squid
Science News spreads the news of an underwater arms race. Sonar specialist T. Aran Mooney of Woods Hole has discovered that squid are invisible to […]
Tron’s (real) cultural legacy.
No, it’s not the concept of living computer programs zooming around circuits on motorcycles made of light. It’s the way, motherboard.tv reveals, a rather clever […]
Ecstasy for autism.
PsychCentral is turning on to the real, measurable benefits that the clubbiest of club drugs has on schizophrenia, autism and other disorders: Some scientists believe […]
Science Art: Figure 22, from Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927
From Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927. Found on archive.org.
Planet of diamonds
Hyperspace professional Michio Kaku, writing in the BigThink blog, is thinking big about the most precious world in the universe: The planet, called WASP-12b was […]
Sing for space
NASA wants a few good space songs. Really. Just like this site, only, you know, on a much bigger scale (with a slightly narrower focus). […]
Hobbit-eating storks.
I bet they tasted better than babies. Discovery explores the frankly terrifying implications of a new fossil discovery: Named Leptoptilos robustus, this newly discovered stork […]
Frogs might make it after all.
New Scientist offers hope that our amphibian friends might not all die horribly after all: “It’s happening across a number of species,” says Michael Mahony […]
Fast food on the brain.
“That junk food is gonna get right up in yer head and rot there, by gum!” spat the old timer from Culinate.com. “Jest you mark […]