Our Antarctic Getaway
New Scientist has a lovely brochure for a summer place down south – far, far south: The cool climate of Antarctica was a refuge for […]
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 moreFeeling with a robot hand.
The Mail Times reports on a bionic breakthrough – a man who can feel and control his prosthetic hand as if it was the one […]
All they need is glove.
Glove is all they need. NASA, that is, according to New Scientist. They’ve got somewhere to go, but aren’t all dressed up yet – not […]
Coke Silver could save the world.
Or, at least, do less harm. The folks at Gizmodo are touting the concept of the future-friendly paint-free Coke can: So using only classic Coca-Cola’s […]
“Our Place in the Cosmos” by Symphonies of Science.
So. They’ve done it again. Carl Sagan (and a host of other cosmologists) now have soul. I mean, they had soul all along, but thanks […]
Science Art: Mantis Shrimp by R.A. Lydekker.
The mantis shrimp, Stomatopoda, is one of the most terrifying sea creatures under three feet long. At least to me. They move exceptionally fast and […]
And now, a robot plays Patsy Cline.
If I tried to tell this as a story, you’d think I was making it up. A sound artist wired together an old floor lamp, […]
Prez sends science schooling rocketing.
Discover’s Bad Astronomy blog celebrates a new effort to teach more science: I was particularly excited to hear Obama announce an annual science fair to […]
Note: Improved mix of “A Strong Enough Lie.”
It’s 11 p.m. Eastern, so I’m claiming this as still the 23rd, and I’m submitting a vastly improved mix of“A Strong Enough Lie.” Drums are […]
SONG: A Strong Enough Lie
SONG: “A Strong Enough Lie” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”, Discovery News, 9 […]
Science Art: Light-Toned Deposits in Noctis Labyrinthus (ESP_014353_1685)
Click to embiggen Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. It’s part of their project called HiRISE in which they’re taking photographs of Mars. High Resolution […]
Test-tube T-bones.
They’ll change the world, says H+, an online magazine that can’t get enough of the fake steak concept: In-Vitro Meat… will appear in 3-10 years […]
The Crocodile Goat of Majorca
Discovery tells the strange story of the island-dwelling goat that was more like a reptile than a mammal: The tiny goat, which stood about 19 […]
Love is envy (chemically).
Science Daily reveals the chemical link between passionate desire and passionate jealousy: Previous studies have shown that the oxytocin hormone has a positive effect on […]