Blimps build a better tomorrow.
The Guardian buoys my spirits with a vision of low-pollution, lighter-than-air travel: The government’s former chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir David King, now director of […]
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 moreDinosaur incubators.
Cold-blooded? Maybe. Warm-hearted? Definitely. Discover has the latest on how dinosaur moms used hot springs to keep the babies warm: In the Cretaceous period over […]
Gay men remember faces.
e! Science finds something besides choosing mates that gay men’s brains do differently – recognize faces: “Our results suggest that both gay men and heterosexual […]
Chimp War.
Science Daily spoils the myth of the peaceful forest apes that live idyllic lives with no concept of ownership. Apparently, the brutes fight long wars […]
Oysters in the spill.
The Tallahassee Democrat demonstrates how the Deepwater Horizon disaster is affecting what we can still learn about sea life: ST. TERESA — Thunder clattered and […]
Science Art: “Lemurs,” from The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, 1844.
Lemurs. The monkey-like creatures found sporting with the chameleons on Madagascar, what? Look at all of them. There are some marmosets and manikins in there […]
MS drugs from Chinese herbs.
The Wall Street Journal dishes the dirt on the humble origins of a new pill for treating multiple sclerosis: Fingolimod comes from an idea hatched […]
Oil research stalled.
Nature gets a little rough with the sloppy White House response to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico mess: On 15 June, BP announced that it […]
SONG: Crocodile Surf
SONG: “Crocodile Surf”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Crocodiles go with the flow”, Nature, 7 June 2010, as used in […]
Dirtier. Happier. Smarter.
Science Daily makes me eager to get out in the woods and get dirty. Mostly, just to dig around in the fallen leaves, but also […]
Put your face in space.
Seriously. NASA wants to take you into orbit. Or at least a likeness of you. It’s their way of celebrating the final two shuttle missions. […]
Science Art: Ursa Major, Sidney Hall
Click to embiggen vastly. This is the Great Bear, which has led our eyes to the North Star for centuries. Sidney Hall was an engraver […]
Our salts aren’t the same.
Science Daily has new research that shows people sense salt differently. Genes play a role in what healthy food tastes like to supertasters: The research […]
Better prostate exam? Good dog!
LiveScience examines the way dogs save human lives – by sniffing out prostate cancer: Doctors at Paris’s Hospital Tenon trained the [Belgian Malinois] dogs to […]
Take it ALL off.
The bloggers at ufunk.net have appealed to my prurient side with the Eizo Pin-up Calendar: Miss June, 2010. Yes, it’s a calendar that really shows […]