Why She’s Beautiful
LabSpaces measures out the mathematics of beautiful girls: Pamela Pallett and Stephen Link of UC San Diego and Kang Lee of the University of Toronto […]
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 moreBetter science = less limits + longer time.
MIT economists are weighing in on the science of creativity in a search for the source of big ideas: “If you want people to branch […]
Science Art: The Known Universe by AMNH
The American Museum of Natural History revisits “Cosmic Zoom”, starting at the Himalayas and moving outward (and, as far as we can see, backwards in […]
Skin sense
Yeah, so did you know your skin can hear? And that, LiveScience says, isn’t all. There’s also some kind of subtle sense that operates through […]
Blue whale basso is really profundo.
Discovery gets deep in its musing about a cetacean mystery. The songs of the blue whale have been getting progressively lower in pitch: In some […]
DIY book scanner
Wired featured a wonderful piece of homemade cybernetics (and one that could subtly changing the world) – the homemade book scanner: For nearly two years, […]
Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!
Chasing the links for that Levitin interview yesterday, I found this call for volunteers in a musical experiment: MacCullum’s computer program creates a randomly generated […]
The Brain in the Studio
Unlike all of the other selections cut-n-pasted here, this one I typed in by hand; that’s how much I wanted to share it. It’s from […]
Science Art: Chinchilla, Webster’s New International Dictionary, 1911
Behold a crepuscular rodent. In this case, I suppose, a fractional crepuscular rodent. (That means they like going out at dusk and dawn… creatures of […]
Reading is fundamental… for kids’ brains.
Science Daily reveals research that proves reading lessons really do create new brain cells in children: Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just […]
10 red balloons.
That’s what DARPA launched to test new ways to use the internet – and social media specifically, the Guardian says – to solve problems rapidly […]
Monkey talk.
And, Wired says, we’re just about able to understand their vocabulary… and their grammar: Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific […]
Getting stuck a stroke of luck
PhysOrg looks at the sunny side of the Mars Rover Spirit getting stuck – in exactly the right place to make some major discoveries: “Spirit […]
Birdfeeder evolution.
Wired reveals one strange way humans are changing the natural world – by accidentally creating new species: “This is reproductive isolation, the first step of […]
Science Art: (MAPS fundraiser) “Candy Dish” Psychedelic Synthesis Lab Art Glassware
This is custom glass art from the laboratory of Sasha Shulgin, the chemist who gave us MDMA and a host of other psychoactive compounds. It’s […]