AI stocks take a dive.
The Futurist calls the latest wave of the hype-cycle over for artificial intelligence, with news of AI companies losing an impressive $190 billion in stock value:
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Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: We Ate Each Other's Wings
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreSecretly sick.
University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Reporting and Policy (CIDRAP) has some scientific findings from colleagues at U Michigan that will surprise no one who … Read the rest “Secretly sick.”
Science Art: Nyctodactlyus, by F. John, c. 1915
This glimpse into a prehistoric world (which we now know should probably have at least a few more feathers in it) is part of the first series of chromolithographic cards created by German … Read the rest “Science Art: Nyctodactlyus, by F. John, c. 1915”
Hacking the train.
Ars Technica recently reported on a new front in the “right to repair” war. A group of hackers broke into a Polish train system in order to overcome software that kept anyone … Read the rest “Hacking the train.”
No song for January
I am currently unable to record, or at least to play a guitar. Song will appear shortly.
Science Art: He2-104: The Southern Crab Nebula, 1999.
This is a nebula inside a nebula, caused by two stars pulling each other apart, as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
From the description at the NSSDCA Photo Gallery:
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Locusts raised in a centrifuge have stronger skeletons.
Science Magazine gets heavy with insects that, when brought up in the “hypergravity” of a spinning centrifuge, grow stronger exoskeletons as a result:
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A magnetic galactic map in three dimensions.
The University of Tokyo might have solved some riddles about the formation of stars by creating the world’s first 3D map of the galaxy’s own magnetic field:
… Read the rest “A magnetic galactic map in three dimensions.”“Until now, all
A white-blood-cell genetic therapy can cure lupus.
The American College of Rheumatology publishes a study about a new way to treat a famously slippery autoimmune disease, using CAR-T therapy to successfully put lupus in remission:
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Science Art: Mouchot’s solar thermal collector from 1860, from Nordisk Familjebok, 1917.
This is a solar-powered generator. A funnel with sides angled at 90 degrees is pointed at the sun to catch its radiation, and those rays are bounced by the funnel’s mirrored walls toward… Read the rest “Science Art: Mouchot’s solar thermal collector from 1860, from Nordisk Familjebok, 1917.”
SONG: Hymn of Acxiom (a penintential cover)
SONG: “Hymn of Acxiom” (a penitential cover). (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on research. It’s a cover of “Hymn of Acxiom,”… Read the rest “SONG: Hymn of Acxiom (a penintential cover)”
“Good” cholesterol bad for brains?
Science Alert casts some doubt on the “good” part of “good” cholesterol, with research that links high levels of HDL cholesterol with a higher likelihood of … Read the rest ““Good” cholesterol bad for brains?”
There’s a good reason to forget.
PennNeuroKnow gives those of us who tend to absent-mindedness hope, sharing research – and the story of a “super-rememberer” named Solomon Shereshevsky – … Read the rest “There’s a good reason to forget.”
Science Art: Don’t Mix ‘Em!, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration, 1936.
There’s a killer on the road indeed. The WPA released this poster to discourage drunk driving, or at least running your hotrod on moonshine.
Public health has never been this metal… Read the rest “Science Art: Don’t Mix ‘Em!, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration, 1936.”
Here’s why long covid makes you tired.
Amsterdam-based researchers have isolated a physical mechanism behind the fatigue that strikes some people for months after a covid infection. It comes down to the mitochondria in muscle… Read the rest “Here’s why long covid makes you tired.”