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 […]
SONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience 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 […]
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: 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 […]