When the coconut crabs came for Earhart.
I’ve been following this bit of research for years, and now Discovery News has an update. TIGHAR has shed a grim, haunting light on Amelia […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience 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 moreOnce it hits the Gulf Stream….
I didn’t really need a computer simulation to show me this because I know how the Gulf Stream works, but here. Wired provides a look […]
Science Art: Catharte de la Californie, Encyclopédie d’histoire naturelle – oiseaux vol. 1, 1860.
Click to embiggen The California Condor, as pictured in the Paris-published The Natural History Encyclopedia – Birds, Vol. 1. By comparison, this was printed at […]
DARPA wants Prophecy.
Wired’s Danger Room sees all, knows all, and reveals all – including the Pentagon’s plan to predict biological attacks by knowing all possible outcomes: They’re […]
Bacteria from the dead….
National Geographic goes beyond the veil for a close look at the life-bringing secrets of resurrection bacteria: Using such clues, D. radiodurans can piece together […]
Printing pills.
PhysOrg reports on a new technique for making medication by printing drugs onto tablets: A medicine droplet is 20 times larger than an ink droplet […]
Anderson & Reed make dog music.
Fixing the BBC’s headline here (and wife??) while celebrating a new, high frequency project by Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, dog musicians: US rock star […]
Science Art: Lunar eclipse March 2007
Click to embiggen vastly A montage of photos taken from the USS Boxer (LHD 4) while the ship was on maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. […]
Blue light smells like bananas.
That’s how Science Daily says life is like for fruit flies who’ve had their smell gene connected to the light gene: Normally animals avoid light. […]
Testosterone, the fact-checking hormone.
BBC reports on what appears to be (oversimplifying here) a hormonal link between skepticism and aggression: To test the impact of testosterone on trust, the […]
Look! It’s a… Hey-a WHAT-ee?
UPenn paleontologists have named a whole new kind of dinosaur: The dinosaur, whose name translates to mean “grinding-mouth, wrinkle-eye,” was most likely an herbivore that […]
Zeppelin ready to take wing. Or, uh, airbag.
The Christian Science Monitor (a surprisingly good source for tech news) is carrying a report on the newest advances in old flying technology – the […]
SONG: Golden Record
SONG: “Golden Record”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Partially based on “Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft”, Daily Telegraph, 12 […]
It’s ALIVE!
BBC (among other outlets) has gotten all excited over the world’s first artificial life form: The team was led by Dr Craig Venter of the […]
Monkeys pay for porn.
Nature says it’s true: Rhesus monkeys will trade items of value – in this case, juice – in return for sexy monkey booty shots: The […]