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The association between songs about science and songs for kids is never entirely broken, I guess, since both endeavors are supposedly educational. So it’s just […]
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 morePrehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink: “It is difficult to imagine […]
The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.
Scientists are not just getting into creating music, InsideScience informs me. They’ve also figured out the magic of finance: A pair of physicists at the […]
Scientists make music #2: Live coding.
BBC News reveals the latest tactic in the war to make live electronica performances a little more of the moment: Have the musicians write their […]
Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and […]
“The Laughing Gnome” isn’t enough, I guess.
Well, this seems a little misguided – or maybe absolutely brilliant – but a psychological researcher (and guitarist) has created the ideal David Bowie song. […]
Electricity in my veins.
Surgeons are readying their Frankenstein-style electrodes, NBC says, in preparation for building new blood vessels with the power (and shape) of lightning: The artificial organs […]
Art for health.
PhysOrg brightens up the future of health care with the healing power of art: Nanda, who has a doctorate in architecture with a specialization in […]
Deadly plastic ocean.
Discovery brings up the grim possibility that we’re all doomed to die in an invisible toxic wave: Patterns in ocean currents create conglomerations of swirling […]
Walk, don’t crawl.
Scientific American resets my priorities (or at least my metaphors) with anthropological research. You think in order to walk, you gotta crawl first? Not really: […]
Song: Close Your Eyes
SONG: “Close Your Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Scary music is spookier with eyes shut “, New Scientist, 28 […]
Science Art: Pioneer F/G Jupiter Missions, 1970.
Click to embiggen. A gorgeous vintage diagram of NASA’s deep space probe’s trajectory. The NASA image archive page says: This image, drawn in 1970, is […]
By definition, a crush must hurt…
The Telegraph provides insight into the genuine pain of a broken heart: Psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles say the human body has […]
We found the seeds.
Reuters carries the story of the first seed of life to be discovered on a comet: The latest findings add credence to the notion that […]
DNA evidence, made to order.
New York Times brings up the unsettling possibility that future biochemically savvy crooks will be capable of fudging DNA evidence: The scientists fabricated blood and […]