Ethiopia’s other coast.
New Scientist is ready to weigh anchor in the Sahara, now that it looks like Ethiopia is getting its very own brand new ocean: “The […]
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 moreAnother LHC baguatelle.
Yeah, so the LHC really, really can’t catch a break. Not only are bizarre electrical failures, Al Qaeda operatives and time travelers out to get […]
Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.
Click to embiggen This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of […]
Look up, TV people.
New Scientist points out an unexpected sunny side of the recent switch to digital broadcasting: it’s suddenly a lot easier for radio telescopes to see […]
Germ markets.
Wall Street financiers have more in common with bacteria than you might expect (ahem), PhysOrg reports, based on a new study that shows how microbes […]
Scandal On The Beach! Extortion! Sex!
New Scientist tells the SHOCKING UNTOLD STORY of the steamy, sordid sex lives of fiddler crabs: Males have one giant claw, sometimes as heavy as […]
Science Machine!
The Onion reveals where science comes from. We *knew* it, didn’t we?
T. rex: Just a big puppy?
The Telegraph reveals new fossil evidence that one of history’s scariest dinosaurs engaged in play-fights: Geologist Dr Joe Peterson, of Northern Illinois University, said: “Jane […]
Junk food, junk mood.
BBC reports on new data supporting a link between highly processed food and depression: [The University College London team] split the participants into two types […]
Science Art: Nomenclature and Operation (Norden Bombsight, Mar 1945)
Click to embiggen The Norden Bombsight, from the Bombardier’s Information File (BIF) describing the components and controls. If you’ve read Slaughterhouse 5 or seen the […]
The Robot Blimps of Mars
Wired has me eager for interplanetary conquest with their look at our armada of airships and robotic rovers: With the miniature lab tests complete, [Wolfgang […]
SURPRISE! Asteroid nearly blows up Indonesia.
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the Telegraph reports that an asteroid just blew up over Indonesia with the force of three […]
DMSD stands for “Digital Mantis Shrimp Discs”
Discover has an interesting bit of unexpected biomimicry. The mantis shrimp (probably the scariest marine predator less than 3 feet long) has an unusual way […]
Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…
We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals: [Said Professor Paabo, who […]
The green planet-killer.
Forget asteroids or nuclear war. Science Daily now has me worried that we’re all going to die from toxic pond scum: The microscopic plants usually […]