“The brain has its own language.”
Yes. Thanks, Jim, for introducing me to Nature’s Great Beyond blog, and especially the “Songs about Science” feature. And this: Carl Sagan (autotuned), with Stephen […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreGeekPop: Call for Artists
I am not alone. No, there’s a whole festival for people like me. And, possibly, like you, too. GeekPop 2009 is accepting applications for performers. […]
Another Yangzi casualty.
The BBC depresses me again with a story about a unique Chinese fish that’s probably already extinct: A number of fish species vie for the […]
Dead Fish Tell Tales, Alright.
If you’ve ever wondered what a dead fish is thinking, LiveScience has the data, thanks to a team that gave brain scans to a dead […]
Raised to rule.
Your kids giving you lip?? Watch out, warns PhysOrg. Those are the ones who’re going to be in charge some day: Good parenting may better […]
Science Art: $2 Silver Certificate, 1896 (Science Presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture.)
Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, […]
SONG: Up, Up, Upsub 1
SONG: Up, Up, Upsub1. ABSTRACT: So, I wrote that song about New Zealand’s not-so-mythical giant eagle, (Harpagornis moorei), but I wasn’t really satisfied with the […]
Water on the Moon
SPACE.com says we’re ready to set up shop on Luna, now that we’ve found reserves of water up there: While scientists continued to suspect that […]
We have ways of making you talk. OK, no, not really.
ScienceInsider dares to contradict thousands of Alias fans with “facts” and “experimental proof” from a neuroscientist who explains why torture doesn’t work: (Quoted from Trends […]
SONG: Up, Up, Up
SONG: “Up, Up, Up.” (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Maori legend of man-eating bird is true”, from The […]
Land of the Rising Solar Panel
PhysOrg reveals why Japan is going to outlast us all – because instead of (or in addition to) prospecting for oil reserves, they’re going to […]
Unclean! UNCLEAN!
New Scientist‘s microbiological reporting really makes you scared to ever go in the shower again: “Run your shower for a minute or so before you […]
Science Art: Flying Lemur, Webster’s New International, 1911.
This is the flying lemur, or colugo, also known as the order Dermoptera – the “skin-wings.” They’re related to shrews and bats moreso than real […]
We can see electrons.
Or, well, their valences, which is as good as it gets without Heisenberg getting in the way. Yeah, the Corante Pipeline has a post describing […]
One-way ticket to Mars.
That’s the trick. That’s how this guy in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian (and elsewhere) says we’ll do it. We’ll be able to send people […]