We don’t need more science education.
We need more science jobs. Over at ScienceBlogs, they crunch the numbers: Like many other things in life, you get what you pay for (if […]
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 moreBatteries for solar homes.
Over at VentureBeat’s “GreenBeat” section, they’ve got a profile of a promising new Panasonic project, building batteries powerful enough to run your average suburban home […]
One tool, two brain functions.
PhysOrg reveals a new discovery (using old tools) of a single brain protein that does two very different things to help us think: Details of […]
Born in Black Holes
The World of Weird Things blog has a pretty cool look at the part played by big black holes in the origins of the universe: […]
Cosmic songs.
Science Line doesn’t care if you’re not supposed to be able to hear spaceship engines go “whooosh” – they say we’re actually being quietly bombarded […]
Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.
William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything […]
Monkey and Robot go to Mars.
PopSci says the Russians are floating the idea of sending a monkey and robot to Mars. For real: Russia’s Cosmonautics Academy is in preliminary talks […]
SONG: Dear Winter.
SONG: “Dear Winter” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience (via Yahoo! News), 8 Dec 2009, […]
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 […]
Better 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 […]