Magnets and morality
Medical News Today makes me feel uncomfortable… oh, no, wait, it’s a GOOD thing!… about the way magnets can alter our moral judgement: Ten years […]
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 moreSo that’s what written Pict looks like….
Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures: The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, […]
Is Alzheimer’s a yeast infection? Are the plaques the *cure*?
The Corante blog is taking a second look at brain research that could turn Alzheimer’s thinking on its head: A recent paper in PLoS One […]
Science Art: Galileo’s Sunspots, 1612
Click to embiggen. Originally published in 1612 in published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome. found via Woolgathersome.
SONG: The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare
SONG: “The Stick That Never Strikes the Snare” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Scientists supersize quantum mechanics,” Nature , 17 […]
Maple syrup – now *that’s* sweet….
Science Daily reveals the health-boosting chemicals found in maple syrup: University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra Seeram, who specializes in medicinal plant research, has found […]
Men and women have different nightmares.
PhysOrg divides bad dreams between the sleeping sexes: The study, carried out by Dr Michael Schredl of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, […]
No song… yet.
Very close to making the deadline this month BUT NO CIGAR. I am, however, a grandfather now. So there’s that. A new song will be […]
Corn syrup not so sweet.
Princeton University researchers have found the bitter truth about HFCS: The first study showed that male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in […]
Cookbook ecology
“Trophic level” is a measure of how far up the food chain an animal is. It’s generally used in ecological studies to show how much […]
Science Art: Aghatis Dammars, Nordisk familjebok
This is Agathis dammara, the tree from which we get dammar gum, used as a varnish on paintings, a glaze on food or an ingredient […]
Quantum drum beats without beating.
Nature reports on the first object large enough to see that’s been put into the quantum state of neither moving nor not-moving: Cleland and his […]
Shrimp that should not be!
The Associated Press plunges into the icy waters of the unknown to present us with an unspeakable creature… a shrimp that should not be: Six […]
Lose a gene, gain a limb.
PhysOrg shows you how to arrange the swap: The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing potential in mice long thought to […]
Geek Pop: Interviewing Kepler
Yes, I interviewed (briefly) the legendary astronomer backstage at GeekPop ’10. The full text is up here, at the geekpop site.