Who’s hottest – how?
The Economist gets downright dreamy with its rundown of who’s the biggest hunk – and why: [M]en often find women’s taste fickle and unfathomable. But […]
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 moreScience Art: X-15 Pilots Clown Around, 1966
Click to embiggen From NASA’s fashion pages on Flickr.
Give me LIFE, my scientists! LIFE!
So says Kazakhstan’s aging leader, in one of the strangest science stories to ever grace the Guardian’s pages. The fun part is that, crazy as […]
Arsenic, aliens and science writers
The Guardian takes a good look at what we can really learn from NASA’s arsenic-eating aliens this week: But to focus on the researchers would […]
Heard the new drug?
First, The Chronicle of Higher Education turned up the special music and tuned into the science of brain-boosting binaural beats: “There are hundreds of examples […]
In. Out. Ahhh…..
A better life can come down to the simplest thing in the world. Yesterday, NPR.org investigated the science behind one of the most potent therapies […]
New venomous critter in Yosemite
Just when you thought there were enough reasons to be nervous about camping, Mother Nature Network brings you, oh, a half-scorpion, half-spider that lives in […]
Science Art: Resplendent Trogon, J.G. Wood’s Illustrated Natural History 1898
Click to embiggen This is the resplendent trogon, a Mexican bird known formally, nowadays, as Pharomachrus mocinno, and once upon a time as Trogon resplendens. […]
Lakes of Fire
The world’s lakes are coming to a boil, reports National Geographic. Only a minute difference in global climate is already causing some major changes in […]
David was packing heat.
Discovery takes a peek inside a famous statue’s hand to find Michelangelo’s lost weapon of war: “Bulging with veins, the right hand is holding what […]
Nemesis returns?
If you’re not up on astronomical conspiracy theory, “Nemesis” is the name for a hypothetical small star/very large planet that, one, we can’t see and, […]
Too clean, too sensitive.
Metro.co.uk brings us yet another report on the problems with cleanliness: The modern trend for using antibacterial soaps is actually harming young people by making […]
Saturn’s friendly moon.
Pack up your things! Discover reports that the Cassini Saturn probe has found an oxygen atmosphere around Rhea: Other atmospheres known to exist throughout the […]
Science Art: The Geologic Time Spiral, by Joseph Graham, William Newman, and John Stacy.
History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral. Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Pamelia Kurstin, TED talk/concert, 2002
She starts with “Autumn Leaves” and goes on from there – just about 20 minutes of playing and talking enthusing. More on the effervescent Ms […]