Science Art: Von Karman Vortices
Click to embiggen vastly Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist […]
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…
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SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out
SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “A Rocket for the 21st Century”, from […]
Rock the Power, Gramps.
Designboom recently gave a green design award to the Murakami rocking chair. Great invention – it’s a rocking chair with a dynamo and a built-in […]
Spies in the house of science.
So first there was that little problem with Al Qaeda and the Large Hadron Collider. Now, the Belfast Telegraph reveals a similar link between Mossad […]
LSD is medicine – and so are magic mushrooms.
…and not only that, but painkilling medicine, too. Newsweek reveals that the psychedelic rocket fuels of 1960s culture are proving to be unique weapons against […]
Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top. There’s something totemic about it, […]
The spy in your pocket.
New Scientist challenges a team of professional electronic snoops, who prove that strangers can learn more than you think from your phone: I’ve just walked […]
Is this how acupuncture works?
A professor at Australia’s Curtin Institute of Technology, Dr Morry Silberstein, may have figured out what makes acupuncture work: His research, to be published in […]
Coconut fusion reactor.
New Scientist goes tropical, revealing what a fusion reactor has in common with a pina colada: The coconuts will be used to generate 10,000 cubic […]
“YOU PUT IN OTHER DETAILS.”
This is why we do what we do: Letter to a ^top scientist at Woomera. This is how the space race was won, you know. […]
Every circle is alive.
This sounds awfully New Agey for Yale, but apparently, physicists there have discovered that metal circles have a tiny amount of persistent energy flowing through […]
The Gold Bug
EurekAlert tells me these dudes in Australia are breeding their fortunes after finding a germ that, in effect, lays golden eggs: “A number of years […]
Squirt memory up your nose.
The venerable Lockergnome recently looked at memory technology – specifically, a nasal spray that boosts your ability to learn: In a research report featured as […]
Science Art: Phallus drewesii, by Brian Perry.
Click to embiggen vastly There’s been a bit of news recently about the discovery of a large number of glowing mushroom species in various corners […]
The Eigenharp
So, these musical engineers are trying to take the keyboards out of electronic music. Instead, “beautiful wooden instruments” are back with the Eigenharp: It pitchbends, […]