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 morePrez 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 […]
A job better than programming…
The DaniWeb IT forum offers proof that, for at least one skilled professional, prostitution is a better way to pay the bills than programming: Dr […]
Don’t bother cheering up. You’re better off that way.
No, really. Despair… sweet, sweet despair… sometimes, the Daily Telegraph says, it’s just stupid to be hopeful. And, the BBC adds, every so often, gloom […]
Science Art: First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home
Click to embiggen. This is a different way of looking at planet Earth. It’s an image from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. The sliver of land […]
Limpid moon.
NASA inspires my hopes again. I’ll look up at the moon and know there’s water up there: “The full understanding of the LCROSS data may […]
Mouthless worm stranger than previously thought. Oh. OK.
Wired has a lovely story about a charismatic creature that has no mouth, lives inside dead whale bones and is part of a very complicated […]
Look at you. Up close.
Pharyngula passes on a very interesting offer: I had my doubts about this; I got an offer from ASPEX corporation to let people get free […]
Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.
Discovery News has me imagining the text of a classified ad in the ARCHAEOLOGY – PRE-CHRISTIAN section…. Found: Persian army. Lots of mileage, but well-preserved: […]