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 […]
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 moreWho’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: 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 […]