One of the world’s poshest schools bans smartphones, issues Nokias.
How will the students play Bubble Cash? Mashable reports on what might be a smart move in favor of dumb phones at the upper-crusty English […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: 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 moreCovid boosters protect against other viruses.
Science Alert has some encouraging research for those who keep up with their immunizations, with evidence that covid boosters offer increased protection against other strains […]
Science Art: Trojeborg, a stone labyrinth from Visby, 1919
This is an illustration from Nordisk Familjebok, a Norwegian encyclopedia from the turn of the last century. The labyrinth, naturally, is much older. It’s of […]
New species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur unveiled
Yellowstone Public Radio has a piece on the grand-looking Lokiceratops rangiformes, unearthed in Montana and “unveiled” at the Natural History Museum of Utah: Mark Loewen […]
Science Art: Saturn Eclipse, Cassini Orbiter, 2006.
This is Saturn, as photographed (yes, it’s a composite photo, not a drawing) by Cassini as it passed in front of the Sun. Our Earth […]
Living skin helps robot smile in a way that is not at all creepy.
Glistening and pink like extruded edible protein, sure… but at least it’s friendly! NPR uncovers the living skin used to cover robots with a (supposedly) […]
Science Art: The Furnaces of the World…., 1912
This is a Popular Mechanics illustration from 102 years ago that sounds like it could have been written today. Warnings about industrial pollution increasing air […]
SONG: Low Orbit Ion Cannon (a penitential Emperor X cover)
SONG: “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” (a penitential Emperor X cover). ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of an Emperor […]
SONG: Migration Roads
SONG: “Migration Roads”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on LiveScience, 3 May 2024, “1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from […]
Science Art: Detaching Roll Mechanism, 1912.
This is a device from Cotton Card-Room Machinery, a catalog published by Whitlin Machine Works. I can’t say much about how it works because I’ve […]
A brand new tiny deer.
Awww. Sci News has reported on the historic discovery of a new deer species in Peru. The short-legged dwarf deer Pudella carlae is the first […]
A planet that is constantly exploding.
This discovery reminds me of some people I know. Mashable reports on the discovery 66 light years away of solar system “HD 104067,” with a […]
An antibiotic that spares gut bacteria.
Medical News Today has findings that make it that much easier to fight bacterial infections without throwing your whole body out of whack – by […]
Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth, from Gray’s Anatomy.
This is the listening part, the twisting bits of the inner ear. It really does look like a mollusk, doesn’t it? (“Cochlea” literally means “snail” […]
Recording tinnitus as it happens – for art AND science.
Well, if a microphone can act as a speaker (which it can, and vice versa), then why can’t an ear act as a megaphone? It […]