SONG: A Tiny Golden Mean
SONG: “A Tiny Golden Mean” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World: Hidden Symmetry Observed for […]
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…
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Grant B on Pocket: Remixing Danny Seim
This is not explicitly a song about science (although it’s getting harder and harder for me to draw that line), but I’ve got a remix […]
Extinct bird alive and well.
That, according to the Telegraph, is the good news. The bad news is that it’s in war-torn Afghanistan: The birds were then spotted again in […]
Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia
Click to embiggen vastly This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake […]
A moment of silence for NASA?
ScienceBlogs (and the Orlando Sentinel) are not sounding very pleased about Obama’s proposed budget for NASA: As a final frying pan upside the head, you […]
A GoST steampunk cameo.
I’ve just received word that the Guild of Scientific Troubadours has a brief walk-in part in the latest novel being drafted by this fine author. […]
A moment of silence for Spirit.
The Mars rover has been officially abandoned. The Tech Herald: However, although the Mars rover has now been written off in terms of fulfilling its […]
Once, we were endangered.
SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas: [A]ccording to scientists […]
Frame the deviance.
Neurologists get Sonic Youth. That’s what I think after reading Jonah Lehrer’s ScienceBlogs entry about the way music works in the brain: The experiment was […]
Science Art: Aus dem Schoenheitsalbum der Natur by Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel, comparing natural forms for his “Beauty-album of Nature.” If you haven’t seen Proteus yet, you really should – as well as telling the […]
No song today…
Between playing on Wednesday and moving into a new house, there hasn’t been any time for writing and recording – so the 23rd will go […]
Sperm of a feather…
NPR takes a look at the scrum that happens when sperm team up to reach their ultimate goal: Fisher wondered whether sperm from two different […]
Substitute blood.
Perfect for androids or pacifist vampires… maybe. But Science Daily says artificial blood could save plenty of ordinary human lives: The reason for this failure, […]
Open Dinosaurs.
You, yes YOU, dear reader, can be published as a paleontologist. That’s what Discovery News says about the Open Dinosaur Project, which is looking for […]
Tying light in knots
Science Daily bends my head with their report on scientists who’ve tied lasers into knots: Optical vortices can be created with holograms which direct the […]