On the sublime significance of a load of whale crap.
The marine biology-watchers at CBS would like to remind us of one of our planet’s under-appreciated treasures: A new study suggests that whale excrement plays […]
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 moreGhostly fish of the dead zone.
The Telegraph dives four and a half miles into a vast undersea dead zone… and surfaces with a ghostly new species of fish: The new […]
Science Art: Bell X-1A In Flight (aviation anniversary tribute 2)
On October 14, 1947, “stick and rudder man” Chuck Yeager proved that you didn’t dissolve, explode or travel through time if you went faster than […]
Science Art: Wellman’s Airship America (aviation anniversary tribute 1)
On October 18, 1910, a team of… well, what would we call them? They take machines and go through the air like birds, so let’s […]
Toward animal spirituality.
Whether or not you think a “soul” is a neurological phenomenon or something else, you might wonder, along with Discovery News, what it really means […]
Etsy partners with NASA. Gives away prizes.
You’ve been reading these updates for some time, so of course you know of my deep and profound love for bringing scientific research and homemade […]
A lesson in FEAR.
PhysOrg reveals the anatomy of terror… in zebrafish: A new study on the behavior of the zebrafish by Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science […]
SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)
SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. There’s no […]
Seal scientists.
Science News reports on an Antarctic project that’s been hiring a crew of oceanographers who *really* feel at home in the water: Seals, walruses, whales […]
Science Art: Ocean plate, large, Andy Lowry
Etsy crafter Andy Lowry, who sells under the “why girls go astray” shingle, created this delightful decoupage plate (that you eat from) using delightful Haeckel […]
One step to better science writing.
BBC’s introducing a new standard: linking to journal articles they write about.
Jellyfish engines.
U.S. News & World Report gets deep, looking at ways to make submarines swim like jellyfish: Jellyfish create doughnut-shaped currents of rotating water when they […]
Garage science.
Not like engineering better automatic doors. Like garage bands. Nature welcomes a generation of DIY researchers: Stories in the press are often peppered with sweeping […]
Drinking for two now.
I’ve often suspected what Discovery News has confirmed: that it’s probably not so bad for an unborn baby to have a mother who enjoys a […]
Atomic cars.
Finally. The good folks at Discovery News give us some hope we’ll be able to drive around with uranium fuel: Scientists from the Los Alamos […]