Spiny eyes. With legs and mouths.
LiveScience illuminates a mystery I’m not sure I even knew existed – how is it that sea urchins can see without eyes: Although sea urchins […]
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 moreScience Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.
This image was ganked mercilessly from the brilliant Road to Endeavour blog. That celebration of the Mars rovers is put together by the same person […]
Last chance to see.
On 4:39 Sunday morning, go out and turn to face Cape Canaveral. It’s your last chance to ever see a space shuttle launch. Last. Chance. […]
Ships on Titan.
Well, this is a news item from before this week’s NASA budget came out. Think of it as a kind of desperate inspiration, perhaps, from […]
Hydrogen: a different perspective.
Yeah, so I kind of really want this poster now.
Running barefoot.
ScienceDaily keeps up with the latest research into the health benefits of running without shoes: [S]ays Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at […]
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 […]
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 […]